[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  UNION BOSSES ATTACKING THE PREFERRED REPUBLICAN VISION OF THE FUTURE

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, most working men and women in this 
country prefer the Republican vision of the future. They support a 
change in the way the Federal Government works and operates, they want 
a change in the way the welfare system operates, they want an end to 
race and gender preferences on the job and in our schools, and they 
want to decide who spends their money and on what. Yet, the self-
proclaimed champions of ``working men and women'' resist this popular 
agenda at every turn.
  On Monday, a group of elite, liberal, big union bosses levied a $35 
million tax increase on the men and women of the AFL-CIO, money they 
will use to attack the pro-family, pro-middle-class agenda of change 
offered by this Republican-led Congress. Despite their efforts, the 
union bosses better be wary, because it is only a matter of time before 
the rank and file throws them out and replaces them.

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