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


                          THE FACTS BE DAMNED

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. My goodness, such self-righteous indignation over 
those big-money interests. It is a concept that the other side of the 
aisle has known nothing about for 40 years. But who for the past 40 
years has been the champion of PAC money and collecting special 
interest money? It has not been this side of the aisle. It has been the 
Democrats. And yet now that the Republicans dare to have a fundraiser, 
a concept that the Democratic Party has never thought of one time in 
their life, we are destroying the work of the people's House. We are 
subverting democracy.
  Dear Lord, there were two Democrats that were going to vote 
yesterday, but they were shut out. Be damned with the facts. Get behind 
us, facts. There was a Republican in the Chamber also, and the majority 
leader explained this yesterday. The Democrats would have lost.
  But instead of sticking to the facts, they are relying on 
demagoguery, talking about Rupert Murdoch and other things that have 
absolutely nothing to do with the facts of what happened yesterday.
  How absolutely irrelevant to what has been going on yesterday and 
what has been going on since we got here on January 4, 1995.

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