[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H249]
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                           WHAT IS GOING ON?

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the stories surrounding the meeting between 
Speaker Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch have turned into a political 
chameleon, changing its colors with each new cycle.
  First, the Speaker's office could not recall the meeting. Then the 
Gingrich spokesman said nothing serious was discussed at the meeting, 
and it was merely a courtesy call. The following day, the account of 
the meeting changed again. The Speaker said he and Murdoch discussed 
the FEC complaint against Murdoch's ownership of Fox television, but 
that it only came up in passing. Now we learn that Fox Television's top 
lobbyist was in the meeting.
  It is time for the Speaker to come clean on his multi-million-dollar 
book deal and his secret meeting with Mr. Murdoch.
  We were promised open government and not closed-door deals. The Wall 
Street Journal said this morning there was another closed-door meeting 
this week with Mr. Murdoch and telecommunications leaders that is 
planned.
  What is going on? The Speaker needs to come clean. We need an outside 
counsel to review this mess.


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