[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 31, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H11464-H11465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             TRICK OR TREAT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, I think it is appropriate here on 
Halloween to be focused on trick or treat. Today we have an opportunity 
to do that on the question of reforming this Congress and the issue of 
gifts and lobby reform, whether there will be more tricks for the 
public and more treats for the Members of this Congress. Since the 
opening of this Congress, our Republican colleagues have had repeated 
opportunities to join us in the type of bipartisan reform of lobby and 
gift ban that has occurred across the rotunda in the U.S. Senate. thus 
far, whether it was on day 1 of this 

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Congress, whether it was on June 20, whether it was on June 22, or 
whether it was on September 6, our Republican colleagues have thus, 
with the exception of I think two of them, refused to join us in that 
kind of bipartisan cleanup. What better day than Halloween to say it is 
time to stop tricking the American people and stop taking treats from 
the lobby. It is time to get about cleaning up this House and doing the 
business of the American people.

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