[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 147 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE HIT-AND-RUN 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, this Republican controlled Congress has 
failed, and it has wasted the American people's time. Let me just say 
that what they have not done is they have accomplished less than a 
Congress typically does across a 2-year period. On specific issues, 
they made no progress on making sure that Social Security and Medicare 
were preserved for future generations. They did not change the way, in 
fact, we run our campaigns and the amount of money that is raised in 
those campaigns, and they have done nothing about protecting patients' 
rights and managed care reform.
  Last night they caved under the President's pressure, Democrats' 
pressure, to allow 100,000 new teachers to go into our schools in 
grades 1 through 3 to help our children, and yet today they take pride 
and view it as a victory that they did not want to move on modernizing 
our schools, to wire up our schools so that kids can get the 
opportunity to be on an Internet, so they can in fact be able to 
compete in the future. They view that as a badge of honor.
  Quite frankly, this is a Congress that has done a hit and run on the 
American people.

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