[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               FURTHER EXPLANATION TO CORRECT THE RECORD

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I am very grateful to the gentleman from Wisconsin 
for yielding.
  I want to point out and correct the record again: First of all, it 
does not pass the straight-face test that one Senator of the minority 
party could force this entire House to yield to something the House 
never considered or the conferees on her side. There were 17 of these 
deals--18 of these deals--and this is the only one that stood. I cannot 
believe that one Senator has ever had that kind of power.
  Second, I want to point out that this $38 million revenue does go 
back to the sellor. The idea of this was to give the sellors benefits 
if they sold to minority owners. And the idea has been, we all were 
going to do away with those, going to do away with all of those.
  We found we did away with all of them except the one, and that owner 
happens to be Rupert Murdoch. He gets the benefit of this.
  So let us make the record perfectly clear.
  I thank the gentleman for yielding.

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