[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A SPECIAL BREAK FOR RUPERT MURDOCH

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, on the first day of Congress I joined the 
call for openness in this Congress, and frankly, we have not made very 
much progress.
  During closed-door Senate-House negotiations last week, Republican 
legislators bestowed a multi-million-dollar tax break on Rupert 
Murdoch, yes, Rupert Murdoch. You have heard of him before. He is the 
same foreign plutocrat who came here to the Capitol to meet with 
Speaker Gingrich just after the election. Yes, Rupert Murdoch, he is 
the one with the $4.5 million book deal.
  And in this supposedly open House from this podium or any other, did 
we hear one word about Rupert Murdoch being the only beneficiary of 
this piece of legislation that was just announced as enrolled this 
morning? Not a word was uttered.
  There were 19 business deals affected by this piece of special 
legislation worked out in secret. Eighteen of them failed to make the 
mark. But 18 of them were not owned by Rupert Murdoch. His was the only 
measure in the entire country to get this special break, and it did not 
happen without the blessing of his good buddy, Newt Gingrich.


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