[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 31 (Wednesday, March 12, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H893-H894]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            A HERSHEY'S KISS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I want to join my colleagues in thanking 
the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. LaHood] and the gentleman from 
Colorado [Mr. Skaggs] for bringing us all together, over 220 Members, 
together for a bipartisan retreat.
  In that retreat we all acknowledged we are going to have 
conservative, liberal, urban, rural differences for whatever 
philosophical reasons, but that we

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should try to eliminate the obstacles to civility as much as possible.
  One of the things my group recommended, for example, is before we 
give our speeches ask ourselves these questions: Is the speech fair, is 
it accurate, is it true? If it was the last speech you were going to 
give, is this the one you want to be remembered by? If your mama was 
sitting in the gallery, would you still give this speech?
  Mr. Speaker, I think if we go through these batteries of questions 
and just ask ourselves to reach for a higher level, then I think it 
might not be necessarily easier for Republicans to kiss a Democrat or 
for a Democrat to kiss a Republican, but it will be easier for us all 
to give each other a Hershey's kiss.

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