[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THE NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION

  (Mr. COLEMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I only wanted to highlight an issue that 
was raised by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon]. The National 
Taxpayers Union, I think it was, that he cited, put into the Record.
  I would hope that everyone would understand that that organization 
does not have a whole lot of credibility when it comes to ranking 
Members, because what they did when the Senate was in control of the 
Republicans a few years back, they had a different criteria for their 
votes on appropriations bills than they did for the Democrats over on 
the House side.
  And I just wanted everyone to be aware that that is hardly the 
criteria we ought to be or a standard we ought to be utilizing. They 
pick and choose the bad votes such as, did you vote for the interior 
appropriations bill, yes or no? If you did, boy, that is a bad vote.
  You are going to find, if they used the same standards on us, as 
Democrats when we were in charge and had to pass legislation and were 
governing, as they will use on you, I think you will find that you have 
a whole lot of real bad votes with that organization.
  We will see if they are going to have any credibility left at the end 
of this session in ranking you poorly because you vote for an 
appropriations bill.


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