[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MUCH ACCOMPLISHED, MUCH YET TO BE DONE

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, it is always humorous to listen to the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Klink] stand here and complain about 
this Congress. The gentleman said that the Accountability Act was one 
that he introduced in the 103d Congress. That was a Democrat Congress 
with a Democrat President, and he could not get it passed.
  We have heard that the minimum wage was a Democratic initiative, but 
they had a Democrat Congress and a Democrat President in the 103d and 
they could not get it passed.
  This Congress has also imposed congressional reforms and the line-
item veto. Indeed, 7 of the 14 accomplishments listed by the President 
in his acceptance speech in Chicago were items in the Contract With 
America that he signed. Seventy percent of that contract is signed into 
law and the President is proudly taking credit for it.
  This has been a successful Congress. We have achieved much 
telecommunications reform, welfare reform, the Farm Act. We have 
achieved much, but we have much left to do, and we intend to be back 
here in the majority in January, completing our work.

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