[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27858]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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            REPUBLICANS BOAST SORRY RECORD OF NONACHIEVEMENT

  (Mr. ALLEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLEN. Madam Speaker, when the Speaker of this House was sworn 
in, he promised to get the appropriations bills done on time. Well, we 
are into November, the second month of the new fiscal year, and it is 
not done. The Republican leadership cannot do the regular business of 
this House on time.
  But the greater tragedy is our failure to make progress on 
substantive challenges. Democrats and some dedicated Republicans worked 
to pass campaign finance reform, but Republicans killed it in the other 
body.
  Democrats tried to make our streets and our schools safer for 
children by passing modest gun safety provisions; Republicans killed 
it.
  Democrats tried to make health care safer for patients by passing a 
Patients' Bill of Rights; Republicans killed it.
  Democrats tried to make this world safer by passing the comprehensive 
test ban treaty; Republicans killed it.
  Democrats tried to help our seniors pay for their prescription drugs, 
and Republicans killed it.
  With this sorry record of nonachievement, it is time to go home and 
work harder next year to make progress on the issues that matter to 
America's families.

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