[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1294]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           SPECIAL INTERESTS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, to anyone who is wondering why Public 
Citizen, Common Cause, and almost every other good Government group I 
know and many others are calling for outside counsel to investigate the 
growing array of special interest connections that are alleged to be 
gathering at the Speaker's doorstep, watch tonight. Because tonight 
lifestyles of the rich and famous come to Washington.
  Yes, for $50,000 you can get a dinner. Well, the steak better be 
good. Yes, you can get a dinner, but you can also get access. And that 
dinner can be publicly subsidized because you as a taxpayer are going 
to pay $19,800 for that dinner. So if you are outraged by that dinner, 
think about it. Especially on the very same day the Speaker is quoted 
in the Washington Post as saying public high school is nothing but 
publicly subsidized dating.
  Please, what is wrong? Let us get on with an outside counsel and get 
this cleared up.

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