[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 137 (Wednesday, September 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8541]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       LOBBY REFORM AND GIFT BAN

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, with the House resuming its work today, the 
time is now for action on lobby and gift reform.
  There are Members, both Democrat and Republican, who are eager to 
obtain immediate reform on this subject. But unfortunately, we have 
been stymied by an indifferent and intransigent House Republican 
leadership.
  It took a bipartisan effort in the Senate, both Republicans and 
Democrats working together, to approve real gift and lobby reform. Yet 
the only response to that action from the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Armey] and the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] has been, ``Well, 
maybe next year.''
  Let us act now to plug the loopholes in the 50-year-old lobby 
registration law and do something about those who come to this House 
bearing gifts or perhaps merely bearing golf junkets for the Members to 
obtain influence. Before we act on all of the other business, let us 
have an up-and-down vote on loby reform and gift ban.

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