[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 26 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1468]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CONGRESS SHOULD NOT INTER- VENE IN THE BASEBALL STRIKE

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, the President sent a message to the House 
last evening asking Congress to pass legislation to establish a 3-
person panel to arbitrate the baseball strike.
  I say there is no role for Congress in the baseball strike. But I do 
have a suggestion. How about we get the millionaire owners and the 
millionaire players to sit around a table and talk to one another so 
the average person can go see a baseball game?
  This is ridiculous for Congress to be involved when we have all of 
these high-paid people who are supposed to be pretty smart and they can 
sit down and solve this thing. Congress should not be involved. I do 
not agree with the President on this.
  Have them sit down at a table and solve it all so that all of the 
average folks out there can watch baseball this spring and this summer.


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