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Gilbert Gutknecht: Well, I think it ties together with what we are talking about, because when we are advancing what I think is a…

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
Well, I think it ties together with what we are talking about, because when we are advancing what I think is a commonsense agenda, and I think it is commonsense whether you are from North Carolina or Georgia or Minnesota, of putting the Federal Government on a diet, making the Federal Government live within its means in advancing policies, whether it is the Defense of Marriage Act or eliminating or making illegal these diabolical late-term abortions where the baby is literally pulled from the mother's womb, all except the head, the head is left in, scissors are inserted in the back of the baby's brain and literally the baby's brains are sucked out with a suction device, I think everywhere outside this Beltway that is considered extreme. The agenda we have advanced is commonsense. The extremism, if there is any here in Washington, DC, is I think confined to our liberal friends.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing a commonsense agenda related to government spending and abortion during a floor speech.

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