[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 3, 1994]
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   BASEBALL: PARTIES SHOULD CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS DURING COOLING-OFF 
                                 PERIOD

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, there are only 9 days left to go before 
the baseball strike, and because baseball is not within the Federal 
jurisdiction because a long time ago people felt it was not in 
interstate commerce, there is not a lot we in the Congress can do. We 
probably cannot put in a cooling-off period because we have no 
authority over them that we could do in many other areas.
  But let me give a little sense of this congresswoman: They would be 
very well advised to voluntarily put in their own cooling-off period 
rather than rush to this strike, because I fear if they do not do that 
they are going to find many of their fans cooling off and they may also 
find the Congress is a whole lot more interested in changing that long, 
old historic law and decide that we really ought to get into baseball.
  Baseball is the national pastime; we are supposed to play ball, not 
just pay for ball and not get anything in return. So I hope they chill.

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