[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8519]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ROUT OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Well, Mr. Speaker, this is what it has come to. A year 
and a half is down, and a rout of the revolutionaries. They promised us 
a revolution in the way this Congress was operated, and today they 
delivered, defeating the one hope for campaign finance reform.
  Every citizens group that looked at this independently, not 
Democratic groups or Republican groups, every citizen group spoke out 
against this sham reform. Ten Republicans had the courage to condemn 
this Gingrich bill, and the Speaker, Speaker Gingrich, came right here 
to the floor of the House to demand that this regressive piece of 
legislative be approved. The House has rejected it.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for us to have bipartisan reform, not more of 
the same old business out of this so-called revolutionary Congress that 
once again has demonstrated that it is not revolutionary, just 
revolting.

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