[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               AMERICANS BELIEVE IN FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS

  (Mr. RUSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, it seems now that the Republican leadership 
has resorted to a new low in a shallow and shameful effort to stop 
discussion regarding the Speaker's avaricious book deals.
  The majority has succeeded in gagging the minority Members of this 
House. Mr. Speaker, the American people believe in fundamental 
fairness. The gagging of Members of the House of Representatives and 
the House minority flies in the face of that fundamental belief.
  To gag a Member of the House of Representatives is a first step 
toward a dictatorship of the majority which I am afraid my Republican 
colleagues have brought lock, stock, and gag.
  Is the Republican leadership afraid to shed light on the book deal? 
Are they willing to kill off open discussion in order to protect Rupert 
Murdoch, the Speaker, and the infamous and outrageous book deal?

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