[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10531]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DOLE PROMISES EVERYTHING

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, let me say those are good ten 
fifteen onions developed in South Texas in Mr. de la Garza's district 
by Texas A&M.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the House concerning Senator Dole 
going from issue to issue now in the Presidential campaign. Nothing 
seems to take hold. He is not talking about the tax cut as of 
yesterday, because the American people saw through the rhetoric and 
realized he could not balance the budget and cut $548 billion in taxes 
at the same time.
  Now he is trying to convince the public that the President's crime 
bill had nothing to do with the recent drop in the national crime rate. 
Instead he says it belongs to the Governors, who I am sure are also 
participants in it.
  Senator Dole voted against the addition of 600 new police officers in 
my home town of Houston, TX, and he also voted against increased prison 
construction, increased border patrol, and the expansion of the death 
penalty in the crime bill of 1994. It is obvious that Senator Dole 
wants to have it both ways.
  When something good happens, it is the Republican Governors; but when 
something bad happens, like drug use, it is the President; when Bob 
Dole also voted to cut the funding for safe and drug free schools.
  I am confident the American people will see through this, just like 
they did through his tax plan.

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