	id AA15347; Thu, 2 Mar 95 09:24:09 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 19


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 19
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`THE PROJECT' (House - February 28, 1995)
 
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    The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dickey). Under the Speaker's announced
   policy of January 4, 1995, the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Whitfield]
   is recognized during morning business for 5 minutes.
   
   Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with great concern about an
   article which appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. Since I read
   articles in most newspapers with great skepticism, I hope that facts
   set out in this article are not true.
   
   According to the article in the Washington Post, a prominent
   Democratic Congressman at a recent Washington dinner party
   enthusiastically discussed what he referred to as `The Project'--a
   coordinated, calculated effort designed to politically destroy Speaker
   Newt Gingrich.
   
   A week later, another Member of the Democratic Party, in a keynote
   address to a party convention in Boca Raton, disclosed that the House
   Democratic leadership had embarked on a day-by-day plan to investigate
   the House Speaker, harass the Speaker, and drive him from office.
   
   According to the article, members of the Democratic leadership in the
   House meet on a weekly basis for this purpose. Mr. Gephardt is
   represented at the meetings and the White House is also kept informed.
   
   The Democratic National Committee also publishes a weekly `Newt Gram'
   trashing the Speaker.
   
   Two senior liberal Democratic Members of Congress--not a part of `The
   Project'; that is, Newt bashing--said `Our party attacks Gingrich
   because we don't have anything else to say.'
   
   If it is true, what a tragedy--the National Democratic Party and its
   leaders deliberately working on `The Project' to destroy another
   political leader.
   
   Our great Nation faces many serious issues crying out for a solution.
   It is almost incomprehensible that a handful of Democratic leaders
   would be consumed with such a destructive compulsion for revenge.
   
   It is not surprising that in so many issues we have debated on this
   floor during the last month that a handful of Democrats have used
   similar tactics to polarize America. Pitting the poor versus the
   middle class--and the middle class versus wealthy members of our
   society--in effect using scare tactics.
   
   We are all Americans and we must develop solutions that will benefit
   our entire society not just one part of our society. The American
   people not only deserve but demand that Members of Congress devote
   their time and energy trying to solve very serious national issues
   instead of trying to destroy another political leader because they do
   not agree with his political philosophy.
   
   The election box is the proper place to decide philosophical
   differences, not some sinister plan referred to as `The Project.'
 
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