[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TIME TO STOP THE FAKE ADS

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, if the people do not wake up, they may 
have the best labor-union Congress money can buy. The AFL-CIO is doing 
the dirty work of the liberal Democrats in Congress and of Bill 
Clinton.
  In North Carolina, a right-to-work State, union ads falsely charged 
that I voted to give myself a congressional pay raise. Of course I just 
arrived in Congress in 1995, not in 1989, when the last pay raise was 
voted on.
  Next, the right arm of the Democrat National Committee, the AFL-CIO, 
put ads on the air in Raleigh-Durham saying that my name was Randy, not 
David. That would be news to my parents.
  Then a colleague called me from Nebraska saying that the AFL-CIO 
attack ad on minimum wage was being shown on television in Omaha, NE, 
attacking David Funderburk of the Second District of North Carolina. 
Admittedly, Nebraska starts with ``N'' like North Carolina, but that is 
where the similarity ends. And our ``Randy'' in Congress is from 
Washington State.
  The big boss labor unions of the Democrat party are spending tens of 
millions to lie, distort and deceive the public so they can buy back a 
left-wing, union-controlled Congress. It is time to stop the mud and 
false ads.

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