[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CORPORATE FAT CATS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, let us put a little focus on what this 
article points out. The reason we adjourned the House early on 
Wednesday afternoon, what every other American thinks is a regular 
workday, we adjourned early afternoon so people could run to corporate 
jets owned by tobacco companies and insurance companies, so they could 
traipse off and go to New York City, where the New York fat cats were 
waiting to stuff their coffers with money. If they kept those fat cats 
waiting, they might not have stuffed so much in the pocket.
  Mr. Speaker, I am one of the people who, after the first 100 days, 
went to this dome, and some were angry for holding up a sold sign, but 
let me tell the Members, every day it appears to me we are selling this 
place out. I do not want this to become a coin-operated legislative 
machine.
  Yes, have fundraisers, but have them at night, have them on weekends. 
Do not have them on Wednesday afternoon with corporate jets escorting 
Members back and forth, so they do not upset the fat cats, so they will 
give them lots of money. That is why the American people are really 
concerned about this sacred trust we have called democracy. It is not 
totally dead yet, but I will tell the Members, it is in danger, as of 
today.


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