[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 148 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11027]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  FAILING MARKS TO REPUBLICAN 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, for 2 years this Republican Congress has 
put partisanship ahead of progress. They have consistently kowtowed to 
special interests. They killed HMO reform, campaign finance reform, 
tobacco reform, and attempted to raid the Social Security trust fund. 
In the last few days Democrats have had to fight tooth and nail to 
reduce America's class sizes by hiring 100,000 teachers. Now 
Republicans, it is unbelievable to me that they take such pride in the 
fact that they have prevented school modernization, denying our kids 
the opportunity to have our schools wired up to the 21st century and 
that they could take advantage of the technology that will only help 
them compete in the 21st century.
  Let me just say that this Republican Party is out of touch with 
mainstream America. I am not the only one who thinks so. Jack Kemp, not 
a well-known Democrat, and I quote: Today the Republican Party is 
adrift, without an agenda and without purpose beyond its seeming 
preoccupation with saving the congressional seats of its incumbents.
  This Republican Congress has failed the American people.

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