[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 116 (Friday, September 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I have some additional reading material for 
the gentleman from Georgia and for all of his colleagues. This is it. 
You can read this page and you can get the full story of what the 
Republican Party has done in order to accomplish reform of our campaign 
finance system right here. It is one big blank. To get up and suggest 
that there can be a bipartisan discussion of this matter, as the 
gentleman just disclosed, is truly outrageous, because we have been 
denied any opportunity, either the Republicans, many of whom as 
individuals have come forward with constructive ideas on this, or the 
Democratic colleagues that I have, have been denied any opportunity to 
come to this floor and debate legislative proposals to try to improve 
this system in time for 1998.
  We have as I count it 13 days left in this month to pass any reform 
to address the problems that the gentleman just referred to and all of 
the other corrupting influences on congressional elections in this 
Nation. Yet the Speaker of the House refuses to schedule an opportunity 
for full debate on legislative proposals so that they can go through 
the morning newspaper instead of providing real reform in time for the 
1998 elections.

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