[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6301]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        WHY CHANGE THE SUBJECT?

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, this is fun. We have just agreed to the 
largest new budget proposal in generations, a balanced budget, tax cuts 
for everyone in America, and they want to change the subject to 
campaign finance reform.
  The fact of the matter is both sides do not do it, the only side 
accused of taking illegal foreign contributions are the Democrats. The 
fact of the matter is, when Bob Dole accepted $75 million of taxpayers' 
money to run the Presidential campaign, that is all he spent. It was 
the President that took $75 million and then spent $40 million more 
illegally. They are not arguing with that. They want to say the system 
is broken because everyone does it.
  That is not the evidence. That is not the evidence before the 
Thompson committee. But if I were in as deep a trouble as they are with 
respect to cheating on the current laws, I would want to change the 
laws too.

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