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To: skeptoid
This stuff is quickly and easily found .... on the internet.

Then you will have your memory refreshed that most of these bills died in the Senate. And there it ended.

229 posted on 11/24/2006 11:14:41 AM PST by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776
".. ..most of these bills died in the Senate. ..."

Very observant.

I must point out that the Contract With America was made by the newly elected Republican majority in the House of Representatives with the People of America. (No Senator was party to the document; ...it was wholly a promise of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.)

The CWA consisted of two parts.

1) "On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:


FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; 
SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; 
THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; 
FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs; 
FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; 
SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public; 
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; 
EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting."

They did so.

2) "Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny.

They did this, also.

In other words, you are correct; the ten bills brought to the floor of the House did not all pass the Senate.
And I must ask you: are you saying that the new Republican majority of the House of Representatives in 1994 should have proposed to make their contract binding upon the Senate!@?

In any event, that was never proposed.

235 posted on 11/24/2006 4:04:17 PM PST by skeptoid (BS, AE, AA)
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