[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ESCAPING A FAILED CONGRESS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, Bob Dole's decision to quit the Senate to 
campaign full time for President is like leaving the scene of an 
accident. Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich have been the leaders of this 
extremist Congress for a year and a half. Now, after 18 months of doing 
harm to working people in this country, cutting Medicare and Medicaid, 
education and the environment, Senator Dole is desperate to 
disassociate himself from his own party, from his own failed Congress. 
It is a desperate move to escape.
  Let me read a quote from Senator Dole in Congress Daily. He says he 
is leaving because he is tired of the minimum wage. ``My God. I'm tired 
of listening to minimum wage. Isn't there anything else in the world?''
  Mr. Speaker, let me tell the Presidential candidate that on the road, 
on the campaign trail, 80 percent of the American people support a 
minimum wage increase. Seniors do not want to see the Medicare cuts for 
tax breaks for the wealthy. This is what candidate Dole will find on 
the campaign trail. He cannot escape his failed Congress.

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