[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   $4.25 AN HOUR IS NOT A LIVING WAGE

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, there is an ever-growing empire lurking on 
Capitol Hill called Newt, Inc.
  While Big Bird, school lunches, and the handicapped face savage cuts 
this year, that new empowerment television will host an obscene 
$50,000-a-plate tax deductible dinner this evening. While the rich and 
powerful escape paying taxes, this new empowerment television will 
propagandize to the poor and working people of this country that $4.25 
is more than enough on which to live.

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  Moreover, with in-kind GOPAC contributions, a questionable book deal, 
and the phenomenal group of Newt, Inc., an outside counsel is required.
  Mr. Speaker, there is something rotten in Washington, DC, and, ``It 
ain't the cookie monster.''

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