[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]


                  WE SHOULD ALL LIVE BY THE SAME RULES

  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, I have a history. I have lived in countries 
that were not democracies. I want to say something about democracy. In 
a democracy trust is the major component. in a democracy, it is not the 
military who makes the rules; we make the rules. We, the people, make 
the rules, and we trust we will all live by them.
  The Republican leadership said there will be 17-minute votes. Yet 
today we have a 30-minute vote. So who can we trust?
  That is why, they say, they denied those two Members coming down from 
here into the well to vote. I was standing right here, Mr. Speaker. I 
pointed to those Members. I said, Mr. Speaker, there are Members. It is 
on the videotape.
  Mr. Speaker, if we lost the trust in this institution, we lose what 
is best about a democracy. We all make the rules. We all live by the 
same rules.

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