[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 16 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  A SPECIAL CHALLENGE TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT OF 
                                GEORGIA

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday evening the President stood in 
this Chamber and called on the American people to join him in reforming 
our Government. More importantly, he issued a challenge to Members of 
Congress to voluntarily refrain from taking lobbyists' gifts.
  I am proud to say that I rise to the President's challenge and will 
no longer accept gifts from lobbyists. From now on this sign will grace 
the door of my office, and any Member who signs this pledge sheet will 
also get a sign to hang on their door.
  Mr. Speaker, I issue a special challenge to my colleague from the 
Sixth District of Georgia to take this pledge and illustrate his 
commitment to a gift ban by abandoning, and I will have to say it in 
piglet Latin, his ook-bay eal-day.
  All of us have accepted one gift or another from lobbyists. However, 
as the President reminded us, we cannot change our yesterdays, but our 
todays and tomorrows we can.

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