[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4191-H4192]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               THE $63,000 TAX GIVEAWAY TO RUPERT MURDOCH

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Speaker, I have the opportunity now to respond to 
some of the charges that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer], 
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, raised previously.
  It is just absolutely absurd. There is not one person in this 
building, in this district, in this country that believes Senator Braun 
on her own was able to provide the obscene, sleazy $63 million gift to 
Rupert Murdoch. It just defies credibility.
  There is an expression that I have used, and I think everyone in this 
country has heard previously. It is look like a duck and it smells like 
a duck and it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, it is 
probably a duck. To 
[[Page H4192]] think that the Speaker and the chairman of the Committee 
on Ways and Means did not know about this special deal is absurd.
  I am about to offer once again a concurrent resolution which would 
take out that provision. The Speaker of this Chamber has publicly 
stated that he supports taking it out. I have asked the gentleman from 
Texas [Mr. Armey]. I have followed the rules to this Chamber to get 
unanimous consent.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take up Concurrent Resolution 
55, which would take out the tax provision provided for Mr. Murdoch.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Chair's guidelines, the gentleman 
is not recognized for that purpose. The gentleman's time as expired.

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