[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4534]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THE OBSTRUCTIONIST MINORITY

  (Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, Bill Clinton is no Harry Truman.
  Mr. Speaker, you would have thought that when the people of this 
Nation spoke so overwhelmingly for change in 1994 by sending a new 
majority to Congress, the new minority would have cooperated and 
yielded to the wishes of the American people.
  Mr. Speaker, it is sad to say, but the new minority, the liberal 
Democrat whiners, have done nothing but stand in the way of change. 
Just let me give you a few examples of their obstructionism. Instead of 
helping balance the budget, they brought false charges against the new 
Speaker of the House, taking up his time when he could have been 
working on the legislative agenda.
  Instead of helping the new Republican majority reform welfare, the 
liberal whiners just wanted to march to the floor and accuse the new 
Republican freshmen of being extremists and wanting to starve children.
  Instead of helping middle-income families get tax breaks, the liberal 
obstructionists wanted to falsely charge the new majority with giving 
tax breaks to the rich.
  Instead of helping the Republican majority save Medicare, the liberal 
whiners and complainers just stuck their heads in the sand and tried to 
scare the elderly.
  Mr. Speaker, if there is a good example of do-nothingness in the 
104th Congress, it rests squarely on the shoulders of the whining, 
complaining, liberal, obstructionist Democrats.

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