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- A DISPLAY OF COMITY IN THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE
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- (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for
- 1 minute.)
- Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, this morning Speaker Gingrich invited Vice
- President Gore to meet with the Republican Conference on the subject of
- reinventing the Government. He stood right here at this lectern on the
- Republican side and talked for nearly an hour about making Government
- customer-friendly and constituent-responsive. He talked about the old
- order and the new order. He talked about listening to employees and
- bringing them in on the decisionmaking. He talked about cutting
- redtape, reducing the bureaucracy, and changing the procurement
- process.
- We on the Republican side found that we have much in common with the
- Vice President. We share much of his goal and his vision.
- I congratulate Speaker Gingrich on inviting the Vice President to
- engage in a bipartisan dialog. I hope that Members on both sides of the
- aisle can follow this example set by Speaker Gingrich and the Vice
- President. I hope that the sniping ends. It is always easy to build
- yourself up at the expense of the institution, but I hope that we do
- what the Vice President and Speaker Gingrich did today. We have much in
- common. We have much to accomplish, and we can do it together.
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