[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 154 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPRESSING POLITICAL EXPRESSION IN AMERICA

  (Mr. SKAGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SKAGGS. Madam Speaker, the effort by the proponents of the so-
called McIntosh amendment to abuse and repress political expression in 
this country keeps on causing abuses of its own. First, abusing the 
regular legislative process and sticking this ill-advised bill into an 
appropriations measure. Then abusing committee authority by subjecting 
witnesses at yesterday's hearing to an inquisition about their 
protected first amendment activities. And now an abuse of decency and 
truth, putting out a sleazy forgery concocted by Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight staff to deceive and mislead.
  Yesterday, at the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight 
hearing on this crazy measure, this document, forged by committee staff 
to look like the stationery of an organization called as a witness, but 
containing false and misleading information, was put out. How low will 
the backers of this awful idea stoop to achieve their illicit purposes?
  To add insult to this injury, the chairman has the temerity to claim 
this forgery was not intended to deceive. Madam Speaker, forgeries, by 
definition, are intended to deceive.

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