[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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                      ON THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, undisclosed donors to Mr. Gingrich's GOPAC 
have been invited to help write the GOP contract with America.
  As one critic said, ``If you really believed the fund raising appeal, 
it would be auctioning off the legislative agenda,'' said Ellen Miller 
of the Center for Responsive Politics. But she went on to say there is 
another explanation. ``It's a cheap political fundraising technique 
which exacerbates public cynicism about politics.''
  Now it is either one or the other, Mr. Speaker. If it is the first, 
if it is the selling influence, if it is writing legislation for pay, 
then the ethics committee should investigate. If it is the latter, if 
it is a cheap political fundraising trick, in that case, it is time for 
truth in campaign legislation here in Washington, DC.
  We have it in my State of Oregon, and we have convicted a State 
legislator of a felony for less egregious claims than those made by the 
minority whip in this letter.
  It is one or the other. An ethics complaint or it is a lie.

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