[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MEMORY PROBLEM EXTENDS ACROSS AMERICA

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I find that memory problem not limited to 
the White House. Indeed, I find it extending across America. If you ask 
the people of America when is the last time that this Congress did 
anything to reform the problems of campaign finance, most people will 
have to scratch their head and say, ``Gee, I can't remember. I don't 
recall the Congress doing anything.''
  Yes, there were a lot of hot speeches about wrong here on one party 
or wrong here on another, but in terms of getting down to constructive 
reform to do something about changing the system in which special 
interests dump millions and millions of dollars into the coffers of 
both parties, nothing has been done because Speaker Gingrich refuses to 
schedule a ban, backed by Republicans and Democrat, a ban on soft 
money.
  At least some Members of this Congress in the other body have moved 
from investigating to legislating. It is time for this House to do the 
same thing. Then no one in America will have a memory problem because 
not only will we prosecute and enforce existing laws, but we will clean 
up a system that has gone bad.

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