[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H807-H808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         MAJORITY URGED TO JOIN IN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP CONGRESS

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  [[Page H808]] Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, why does the majority 
continue to resist a ban on gifts from lobbyists? We hear them telling 
the American people they are for openness in Government. They say they 
want to ``shine some sunlight on this institution.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, 
I ask that some light be shed on this question: Why did the majority 
oppose us on the first day of the 104th Congress when we offered an 
amendment to ban gifts from lobbyists?
  On Tuesday night, the President asked us not to wait for legislation. 
He asked us to start now by adopting individual office policies not to 
accept gifts from lobbyists. Mr. Speaker, I did that in 1993, as did 
many of my reform-minded colleagues.
  Many more of us will heed the President's request. Mr. Speaker, I 
urge the majority to join in our effort to clean up Congress. Now is 
the time to prove to the American people that we stand for real reform.

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