[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           BUSINESS AS USUAL

  (Ms. WATERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, shame, shame, shame. Remember the debate 
about the FCC rule that allowed major broadcasting first to sell their 
firms to minorities and women in exchange for tax credits in an effort 
to create diversity in the media? Remember our Republican friends who 
screamed no to that kind of affirmative action? They claimed they were 
against any preferences?
  Well, it is business as usual. They went into the back room and they 
slipped a dirty little deal in the conference report. They allowed one 
token minority deal, and guess who surfaces again? Newt Gingrich's 
friend, Rupert Murdock, is going to get $63 million in tax breaks. You 
know, the same Murdock of the $4.5 million book deal with Speaker 
Gingrich?
  The President must veto this dirty little deal. Let us take a clean 
bill to the floor to provide health insurance to the self-employed and 
small business persons, without giving more tax breaks to the rich. For 
the Republicans it is business-as-usual, cut children, babies, seniors, 
students, working people, but they are taking care of Newt Gingrich's 
rich friends.


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