[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8268-8269]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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      FIRST 100 DAYS OF CONGRESS MARKED BY LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, in a community where overreaching and 
puffery is a state of art, it is always dangerous to begin to talk 
about things we have actually accomplished, but I want to join my 
colleague from Georgia in bragging about what this House has done in 
its first 100 days.
  The leader of this House, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), is in 
no small part responsible for the aggressive legislative agenda that we 
have accomplished. In addition to those acts that the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Price) mentioned, we have also passed a supplemental 
appropriations act to provide the necessary funding for the fight in 
Iraq and Afghanistan and to continue the fight on the war on terrorism.
  We have also passed and sent to the Senate a budget resolution, which 
includes reconciliation for the first time since 1997. We have also 
passed a highway bill, which will provide needed infrastructure 
improvements and growth for this country for the next 6 years. Again, 
sent to the Senate and we are awaiting their action. We have also 
passed and had the President sign a bankruptcy reform bill as well as 
the class action lawsuit reform.
  So this House, in the first 100 days, has accomplished much and I am 
proud

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to be a part of that; and we should thank Leader DeLay for his 
leadership in that regard.

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