[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 DEMANDING AN ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF SPEAKER GINGRICH

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is becoming clearer and 
clearer now why Speaker Gingrich is pressuring Members of the 
Republican majority not to support the privileged resolution for the 
Ethics Committee to give the Members of this House and the American 
public a progress report on their 14-month-old investigation into the 
speaker's activities.
  Today on the front page of nearly every major newspaper in America we 
are treated to the fact that the Speaker mixed campaign fundraising and 
his activities as a legislator. We see now tens of thousands of dollars 
contributed to the Speaker by those individuals that sought his 
legislative favors before the Congress of the United States, people who 
sought his favors dealing with asbestos regulation, with cement trade 
problems with Mexico, where the Speaker, in exchange for those $10,000 
contributions, wrote back to those individuals telling them he was 
terribly interested in their problems, he will look into it, or that he 
thanks them for their counsel on capital gains.
  Mr. Speaker, the House rules are clear on the ethics. You cannot 
engage in that kind of activity when you are raising money from 
individuals, and then engage in favors for those individuals later on. 
The Ethics Committee ought to report to this House and to the American 
people.

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              AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TROOPS IN BOSNIA

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, we have no business sending troops to 
Bosnia--plain and simple. That is the message I am hearing from the 
people I represent, Mr. Speaker, and one the President would do well to 
heed. I pray he's listening.
  The President proposes to send troops trained for combat to somehow 
enforce an uneasy peace among antagonists who have been at each other's 
throats for five centuries. He's sending heavy armor in an area totally 
unsuited for modern armored warfare. He is placing Americans in contact 
with radical factions that have no love for the United States. 
Remember, not all of the combatants on the ground have embraced the 
peace agreement, adding further to a long list of factors which add up 
to a potential disaster.
  In the final analysis, Mr. Speaker, we should never deploy combat 
troops abroad unless a national security interest is at stake. This 
deployment does not meet that simple test. Congress has spoken on this 
matter. The American people are speaking loud and clear. Listen to 
them, Mr. President. Stay out of Bosnia.

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