DeLay:
Looking Forward to Future Agenda
House Republicans
Celebrate 10 Years in Majority
WASHINGTON
– House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today joined other members of
the House Republican leadership and Republican members of Congress to
celebrate the 10th anniversary of a Republican majority in the
House of Representatives and to set new goals for the next 10 years. DeLay
urged his colleagues to see the Republican accomplishments of the past 10
years as just the beginning.
“Every reform we have made,
every promise we have kept, has not been an end in itself, but the means to
a greater end,” DeLay said. “Another inch of momentum in our long-term
agenda to build the kind of America our children and grandchildren deserve.
“Even as we look back on
the 1994 agenda, we also look forward to a new agenda – as always, an agenda
of deeds and not merely words – to protect and defend the security,
prosperity, and families of the United States. You won’t find this agenda
printed on a palm card, but unlike some other less worthy and specific
agendas, one day soon you will find it printed in the history books,” DeLay
said.
“Our new agenda will be an
agenda not just of tax relief, but of fundamental, national tax reform. An
agenda not just of defending our nation, but of proudly fighting for it –
and the ideals upon which it was founded – anywhere and everywhere they are
threatened.”
The Republicans took
control of the House of Representatives in 1994. During the 10 years in
which they have held the majority, Republicans have reformed welfare, cut
taxes 4 times, secured Medicare and strengthened our health care system with
market-based reforms, restored our military to its rightful place atop our
national agenda, called public schools to account for decades of
underachievement, and presided over 69 percent economic growth.
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