[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H8382-H8383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, today our prayer was about doing 
justice and loving mercy and today our legislative agenda is about 
descending these steps collecting more and more money from special 
interest groups. We have failed at campaign finance reform and we have 
failed miserably. This is not what the American people want. Common 
Cause points out that anybody who votes for this is going to be going 
along with having the richest people in America having even more 
influence and the average people having even less. Is that justice, 
coming

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down here with GOPAC and the Speaker? I do not think so.
  It is time to admit we have failed. It is time to call upon the 
Speaker to go back to that bipartisan spirit he had when he shook hands 
with the President in New Hampshire, and it is time to get real reform 
that will bring dignity back to this House and get the special interest 
groups that are courting all of this out.

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