[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             LAST NIGHT'S MOTION TO RECOMMIT WAS DECEPTIVE

  (Mr. CASTLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CASTLE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to follow up on the gentleman 
from Ohio [Mr. Hoke] with respect to the motion to recommit last night. 
This was presented, it is a 10-minute debate, then we vote on it, and 
that could become part of the legislation. It was presented in such a 
way that it was very appealing to some of us who had some concerns 
about certain aspects of the tax bill. We found out in the middle of 
all this that it was 16 pages. We went over, and we researched it, and 
in a short period of time we learned exactly what the gentleman from 
Ohio has represented here today, and that is that it basically gutted 
all aspects of the tax bill. It did much more than the four things 
which were on the placard here. I do not know why this happened in this 
particular way; that is to be answered some other day in some other 
way.
  But the bottom line was it was a deceptive approach to how that 
motion to recommit was handled. Maybe we have problems with motions to 
recommit, maybe they need to be filed sooner, maybe we need to have a 
longer time in order to digest them, but certainly we should not be in 
a situation in which deception is being practiced in this building.
  I put into the Record last night in a 5-minute appearance all the 
mistakes that were presented on the floor and the correct version of 
what was actually in that 16-page motion to recommit. From now on I 
hope we can pay more attention to this particular problem.


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