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Tim Ryan: I appreciate your yielding as we begin to wrap up. Maybe Mr. Meek could get that chart down there and give us the Web…

On the recordJuly 12, 2006
I appreciate your yielding as we begin to wrap up. Maybe Mr. Meek could get that chart down there and give us the Web site as we begin to close. I think you can be an amateur historian to recognize what has happened here; that in 1994 there was a move afoot to change things. Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and there was a crew of them who came to this floor, like we come to this floor, and like we will continue to come to this floor, to talk about issues. They were talking about balancing the budget and they were talking about instilling fiscal discipline. Mr. Meek showed earlier the quote from Mr. Gingrich, and I read last week in the Boston Globe a comment from Dick Armey, the former House Republican leader, who said ``I'm not sure what this Congress has accomplished.'' These are two of the main leaders of that revolution. The Republicans have gotten very far away from what they wanted to accomplish and, I think, what this country deserves. And when that happens, Madam Speaker, it becomes time for a change in America. I think that is where we are.…
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