[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]


                           DISRUPTIVE TACTICS

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, it is disappointing that what we have had is 
a resorting to disruptive tactics in order to keep the Contract With 
America from coming to the floor, and the gentleman who spoke just 
before me, the gentleman from Michigan, indicates that the problem is 
that an ethics committee has not been appointed.
  The problem is the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt], the 
minority leader, has not yet appointed the minority side of the ethics 
committee. It would help if the minority would cooperate with getting 
forward with the legislative business of the House of Representatives.
  We also are disappointed that today, in an effort to stop the 
Committee on Rules from reporting down the rule that will bring up the 
unfunded mandates legislation, the House moved to adjourn. Those are 
the kinds of disruptive tactics, I think, we can expect from the 
minority.
  It is clear now that they cannot discuss these ideas well and so, 
therefore, what they are going to do is resort to disruptive activities 
on the floor.
  That is a disappointment, and we would hope that maybe we could get 
back to the legislative business of the country.

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