[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 29, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 COMPLAINTS ON WHITEWATER ARE REPUBLICAN ATTEMPTS AT DISTRACTION FROM 
                            THE REAL ISSUES

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Madam Speaker, I rise today because I am not surprised that 
what we are hearing about from the other side of the aisle is what we 
are hearing about. Anything, anything to avoid the subjects that we 
have been talking about on this side. Those subjects are the incredibly 
slow work that we saw in increasing the minimum wage. Those subjects 
include the incredibly slow work we have seen about truly protecting 
people who rely on Medicare and Medicaid, and people who have relied on 
the strides that we have made in the environment, and in education.
  What we have seen over this last 1\1/2\ years makes us wonder, it 
makes us wonder, but today it all becomes clear. What becomes clear is 
that they are trying to distract us. The efforts that are being made 
again in these 1-minutes this morning by the other side are simply to 
distract us from these main issues. Madam Speaker, I would hope that we 
can stick to these main issues and work to do these things.

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