[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6723-H6724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I hear this call for campaign finance 
reform. We can pass all the laws in the world, but if some people are 
not going to live by the laws on the books, what point is it to change 
the law?
  Now, it was not the Republicans that invited people into the White 
House at $50,000 a pop for the Lincoln Bedroom. It was not Republicans 
who dealt with arms merchants, foreign agents, and narcotics dealers, 
and had their pictures taken for massive amounts of money. All of those 
things are against the law. It was not Republicans that made phone 
calls out of the White House, against the advice of the counsel to the 
White House.
  And yet they say they want to change the law. For what purpose? It is 
time they obeyed the law on the books.

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