[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      THE SPEAKER'S ICE BUCKETS AND WATER BOYS ARE ON THE WAY OUT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, why is Speaker Gingrich still smiling over 
his ice bucket? It is true, he has collected many an ice bucket, and 
even though he has had all that ice to try to put that ethics report in 
deep freeze, he has not been successful. It is sizzling through.
  Like any time when the ice begins to melt, it turns into dirty slush. 
What we find in this Congress is one Member after another who is still 
carrying around the slush, or the water, the water boys for Newt on one 
issue after another, as they have done through this entire Congress.
  After all, it was Newt's water boys who carried pails like those I 
see Members carrying around Congress today who carried the water to 
shut down the Government and cost the taxpayers $1.5 billion. It was 
Newt's water boys who wanted to cut student loans by over $20 billion. 
It was Newt's water boys who turned over the writing of our water laws 
and our other environmental laws to the polluters, to sit right here in 
this Capitol and write those laws.
  Newt's water boys are still going, but not for much longer.

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