[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11053]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               MAJORITY OF CONTRACT WITH AMERICA NOW LAW

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, our friends on the other side would like 
the American people to believe that this 104th Congress has been a 
failure and that Republicans are running from the Contract With 
America. Well, they are wrong, and here is why.
  In this Congress, the Republican majority has given the American 
people tax cuts for small businesses, an adoption tax credit, the 
Congressional Accountability Act, the line-item veto, unfunded mandate 
reform, the Personal Responsibility Act, health insurance reform, 
lobbying reform, the gift ban, welfare-to-work tax credits, food safety 
reform, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and they are now all law. In 
fact, fully 65 percent of the Contract With America has been signed 
into law, but some of the most popular measures, like tax cuts for 
working families, have been vetoed by Bill Clinton.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are delivering on our promise to change 
the spending culture here in Washington DC. In fact, just yesterday 
when reporters pressed a Member of the Democrat leadership to name 
another Congress as productive, he could not name one, and he said ``I 
know there have been several. I will get back to you.''

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