[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




THE VOTE ON H.R. 1158 AND 1159 DEFINES HOW MANY PRO-LIFE HOUSE MEMBERS 
                HAVE BACKBONE AND HOW MANY ARE SPINELESS

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, the Republican Contract on America we all 
know, through cuts on the school lunch program and other programs, has 
been hard on the kids. Today we are finding that the leadership of the 
Republican Party in the House is not only taking it out on kids, they 
are now going to take it out on the unborn.
  Under H.R. 1158 and 1159, there is language in there that will 
protect the unborn throughout this country. The leadership of this 
House, the Speaker, has now required the Committee on Rules to issue a 
rule that, under adoption of that rule, it automatically takes the 
Istook language out of the bill.
  I have talked to the right-to-life forces here, and they are telling 
me that this vote will be counted. This is the pro-life vote. We are 
going to find out what Members will kowtow to the leadership in the 
Republican Party when they put the pressure on, when they tell them 
there will be retribution if they do not vote for this rule.
  We are going to find out how many pro-life people in this House do 
have backbone, and how many are spineless.

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