[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7369-H7370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE HOUSE SCHEDULE

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I know many people wonder what takes 
precedence here in Washington, DC. It is kind of puzzling when you 
watch the House in session. Is it the 13 unfinished appropriations 
bills, the bills that will fund every part of the Government for the 
next fiscal year, which are due on the first of October? Not a one has 
been passed? Can we avoid another Government shutdown? Is that a crisis 
we should be working on day and night?
  No, that is not it.
  How about repeal of the special $50 billion tax break snuck into the 
tax bill for the tobacco industry? Does that take precedence?
  No.
  There is one simple thing. The House is adjourning at 4 p.m. today, a 
day on which we usually work late into the

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night, with all its business pending, for the thing that always drives 
this body and is driving the majority party. Campaign finance reform 
will not be heard, but they will be raising money in New York.
  They are going to New York. They have got corporate jets coming to 
pick them up. They are going to New York to raise money. We are 
adjourning early today and the people's business will not be done so 
they can go to a $10,000 a plate fund raiser.

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