[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. I wonder if that applause coming from the other side of the 
aisle, if those Members who applauded, if perhaps they also voted back 
on the first day of Congress, of the 103d Congress, 1992, to seat 
delegates, to allow them to vote in the Committee of the Whole in 
contravention of article I, section 2 of the Constitution, punch-punch.
  We continue to hear the same thing over and over and over, and it 
just begins to make you wonder if you repeat it long enough and loud 
enough, if the big lie might not take effect, might not actually stick.
  The fact is that we are increasing the amount of money that goes to 
School Lunch Programs. Everybody knows that on both sides of the aisle, 
including when one takes into effect demographics and changes in 
population.
  What is amazing, though, is that the same lie would be repeated. So 
what is it all about? Is it not really just about power and the loss of 
constituencies and the loss of bases? I think that is really what is 
going on here.
  Clearly those friends of mine on the other side of the aisle have 
been supported for years and years by the Federal employees PAC's, and 
that is really what is going on here.


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