[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NEW REPUBLICAN AGENDA

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I guess we should be happy. After weeks 
of distortions and millions of dollars of AFL-CIO deceptions, and some 
downright crazy claims about the 104th Congress, the President has 
finally come clean. His acceptance speech at the Democratic National 
Convention and his recent campaign speeches trumpeting his support for 
our agenda and our outstanding successes kind of amazes me.
  In fact, the President took credit for 14 different initiatives that 
Republicans promised. How is that for extreme? Is he stealing 
Republican ideas, or, as Jay Leno says, maybe he is just borrowing them 
until after the election. It seems as if the only extremism is the 
extreme way the President wants to be reelected.
  Now his own party must not even know where he stands. As some of my 
friends on the other side of the aisle say, if you do not like where 
the President is, just wait a while. I guess they hope he will come 
around, just like in 1992. I yield back the balance of the President's 
Republican agenda.

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