[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H1296-H1297]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             WHAT A DINNER

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, tonight the taxpayers are going to 
dinner with Speaker Gingrich.
  Tonight a dozen high rollers will sit down to dine with the Speaker 
and hand over $50,000 checks for his radical right wing television 
station. In the process, each attendee will get a tax write-off of 
almost $20,000. That is almost $240,000 of our tax dollars going to 
support the radical right wing agenda.
  This is the same Speaker who refuses to release the names of the 
contributors to his personal political machine GOPAC. The same Speaker 
who, according to the Atlanta Constitution, 
 [[Page H1297]] accepted almost $715,000 from one couple for GOPAC and 
hundreds of thousands of dollars from other individuals.
  A television station, a political organization, a foundation, even a 
$4.5 million book deal. It is amazing Speaker Gingrich has any time at 
all to be Speaker of the House.
  Too many ethical questions have been raised about this Speaker. We 
need an outside counsel to clear the air, to find the truth, and we 
need one now.


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