[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE GUN DEBATE IS REALLY ABOUT MONEY

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, we are going to have a debate today about 
banning or removing the ban on such dangerous weapons as streetsweepers 
and AK-47's. But I, sadly, think the debate is not about the 
substantive issues that we are going to hear about and the danger of 
these guns and the safety of the citizens, but it is going to be about 
one thing and one thing alone. It is going to be about this; money.
  It is going to be about the old adage: bought lock, stock, and 
barrel. Locking up people's election, getting stocks and putting them 
back in this Chamber and stuffing money down the barrel of their guns.
  Now, we can either have new politics and reform about the public 
interests or we can continue to have these same old debates about 
special interests. We can either clean up our campaign coffers and get 
political reform, or we can continue to see the same old politics and 
the same old thing.

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