[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 106 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REPUBLICANS PULL THE PLUG ON REFORM WEEK

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, last year these Republicans promised 
revolution, a reformed Congress. Indeed America witnessed a year of 
zealotry that culminated in a billion and a half dollars of squandered 
taxpayer resources on costly Government shutdowns.
  So this year the Republicans narrowed their focus from 1 year to 1 
reform week. This week. And now that also has vanished because after 
weeks of Speaker Gingrich trying to convince the American people that 
the solution to special interest influence in this Congress was more 
money and congressional campaigns instead of less special interest 
money, and when that approach was rejected by the citizen watchdog 
groups and even by a few Republicans, the Speaker pulled the plug on 
reform week.
  It seems that yesterday's arrogant cries of revolution have been 
replaced by this year's whimpers of partisan failure.

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