[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H9929-H9930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                           GINGRICH 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, today we begin the final push of the 104th 
congressional session, and to welcome the Republican leadership back, 
we have a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll that shows that voters prefer 
the Democrats in Congress over Republicans by a 10-point margin. The 
reason for the American people rejecting the Gingrich Republican 
revolution and turning toward the Democrats' families first agenda is 
that the Republican leadership have their priorities backward.
  The American people do not support Republican efforts to cut 
Medicare, and the people do not support Republican efforts to cut 
student loans, and the American people do not support efforts to roll 
back environmental protections. And mostly, the American people do not 
support a Congress that puts their needs far below the desires of the 
most wealthy in our society.
  Democrats are committed to fighting for working families; that is why 
they developed the families first agenda. It includes legislative 
proposals that would put Congress on the right track toward solving the 
problems that families face in their everyday lives. The Republican 
leadership should spend the

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rest of this session working for families instead of against them.

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