[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




RANK AND FILE OF AFL-CIO WILL CONTINUE TO REJECT THE OLD-STYLE LIBERAL 
      POLICIES OF CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AND LIBERAL UNION BOSSES

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, I want to share with my colleagues news 
of the AFL-CIO's recent convention where the highest officials of the 
AFL-CIO, under newly elected union president John Sweeney, levied a $35 
million tax increase on the rank and file men and women of our Nation's 
unions. This $35 million tax is being used to support an orchestrated, 
and highly political campaign to divide our Nation along class and 
income lines.
  Needless to say, Mr. Speaker, the American people, especially the 
rank and file of our Nation's labor unions, will not allow Mr. Sweeney 
and the other liberal union bosses to turn back the clock on this 
Congress' pledge of fundamental change. We will continue our efforts to 
respond to the people of this great country. We will make the Federal 
Government smaller, more efficient and more user friendly. We will 
fight the bureaucrats here in Washington who refuse to let parents and 
families decide what should be taught in schools. And we will cut 
wasteful Federal spending so we can put more money back in to the 
pockets of working families.
  Despite the rhetoric of the liberal, elite union leaders, I believe 
the working men and women of the AFL-CIO, will continue to reject the 
old-style liberal policies of Mr. Sweeney and the Clinton 
administration, and support of vision of a stronger, more prosperous 
America.

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