[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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           EXPOSING THE EMPIRE OF THE GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, earlier this year while my colleague from 
Georgia was leading the Republicans in cutting school lunches, he 
managed to deflect some criticism by making a big deal out of a pet 
project, ``Earning by Learning.''
  In Monday's Wall Street Journal, however, we learned exactly who
   was doing all the earning: it was none other than Mel Steely, a 
close friend of the Speaker and head of this program. According to the 
Wall Street Journal, 90 percent of the money that comes into ``Earning 
by Learning'' goes to Mr. Steely who is also authorized to write the 
official biography of Mr. Gingrich.
  Is this a new kind of child labor, by exploiting children's education 
as a way to take care of the Speaker's official biographer.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time the empire supporting my Georgia colleague's 
cult of personality be exposed for what it really is--a scam.

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