[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6206-H6207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          TRAMPLING DEMOCRACY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
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  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday our Republican colleagues were in 
a rush to get to a big bucks fundraiser up in Manhattan, and democracy 
was trampled in their stampede to get to those big dollars. You can 
look at today's New York Post. You can see what it was all about. An 
all-star list of corporate bigwigs was slated to attend, the same 
corporate bigwigs that are being benefited by the tax shift to the 
superrich at the expense of people who want school lunches and the 
protection of Medicare. It is more of the same thing.
  But it is a dark day indeed for democracy in this country when the 
rights not just of two Members, but over 1 million Americans to have 
their voice heard in this House, are trampled and cut off. And, 
amazingly, only moments before this occurred, in the Committee on 
Science on which I serve, in an incredible display of arrogance, there 
was an attempt to force people to vote there or vote here.
  This is a true setback for democracy.

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