[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3246]
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                PASS A CLEAN SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I have introduced tonight H.R. 1755, a clean 
supplemental which contains the items agreed to by the conference 
committee to this point on the emergency flood relief supplemental, but 
which strips the proposal from the unrelated partisan riders which have 
been insisted on by the Republican leadership of both houses.
  I had intended to try to offer a motion this evening to take that 
bill up today but the majority leadership did not want it cleared. I 
would simply say that if the leadership insists on putting nonrelated 
items into the supplemental, it is clear that the President will veto 
that legislation and we will be here next week doing what we ought to 
do this week, which is to pass a straight, clean supplemental 
appropriation bill meeting the needs of the flood victims in the 
various States in this country.
  I would hope that by tomorrow, the House leadership and the Senate 
leadership would either have changed its mind about insisting on those 
unrelated riders, or else if they have not, I hope that they will at 
some point tomorrow allow the motion which would allow us to bring 
before the House a stripped-down version of the supplemental so that we 
do not, in fact, needlessly tie up this legislation for another week. 
If we do not do this this week, we will certainly be here next week 
doing next week what we ought to be doing this week, and it makes no 
sense at all.

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  We ought to simply see an end to the partisan games, and we ought to 
move this bill in the stripped-down version on its way to the White 
House.

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