[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 125 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7535]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PUT ELECTION CONTEST BEHIND

  (Mr. GREEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for 
mentioning education. It sounds like a pretty good idea. If they would 
quit trying to cut education funding, then maybe we could get 90 cents 
of every dollar to there. My kids did go to public schools, and I am 
proud that they did, and they had a great education.
  But today I am concerned about what happened yesterday. We had an 
incident yesterday in the House that brought ridicule to this House. We 
had a former Member confront a current elected Member of Congress on 
this floor while the House was in session.
  The election challenge to the gentlewoman from California [Ms. 
Sanchez] must be completed and put to rest now. We have more important 
things to address, like they said, like education, like campaign 
finance reform, instead of letting something like that get in the way 
of the action of this House. That is why it needs to be put to rest.
  We should never allow something like this to disrupt what Congress 
has to do in dealing with enforcing the Balanced Budget Act and 
providing educational opportunity. Yet, what we see is just continuing 
festering of that election contest. Let us put it to rest.

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