[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 46 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, when will it ever end? When 
will it ever end with respect to special interest money and public 
policy in the people's House. Later today we will learn that Speaker 
Gingrich will pay his fine for lying to Congress by borrowing it from 
Bob Dole, Bob Dole who was recently hired by big tobacco to get a 
settlement in the Congress of the United States for all of the people 
that tobacco has injured because of addiction and the cancer causing 
agent. We now have the chief lobbyists for big tobacco financing the 
payoff of the Speaker's fine for lying to the Congress.
  Is there nothing that we cannot do without special interest money? Is 
there nothing that we cannot do that is on the level? Do we now have to 
bring in big tobacco to rescue the ethics of the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives?
  This is a very sad day for the House of Representatives when the 
tobacco industry is paying the legal fines of Members of Congress.

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