[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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            WHAT ARE A MINORITY OF DEMOCRATS TRYING TO STOP?

  (Mr. HORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HORN. Madam Speaker, I have answered to these rollcalls on 
adjournment a dozen or more times in the last few weeks. It is an 
attempt by a determined minority on the other side. They are not the 
majority. The majority of Democrats have voted against these motions to 
adjourn, but 66 or so people, including the Democratic leader, have 
voted for these nuisance motions, and those other motions they can make 
under the House rules. What are they trying to stop?
  They are trying to stop the appropriations process which needs time 
on the floor to meet the October 1 beginning of the new fiscal year. 
They are also trying to stop the 1996 campaign finance investigation 
process.
  Yesterday, the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight was in a 
meeting all day, 10 o'clock to 6 o'clock. Serious deliberations were 
interrupted by numerous nuisance votes to adjourn.
  Some people just want us to go home. They do not want the 
investigation to continue. We have 58 witnesses that are unavailable 
that we are trying to depose, and within the 58, 11 have left the 
country; 11 foreigners have refused to be interviewed by the police 
agencies in their country to give us evidence; 36 of the 58 have pled 
the fifth amendment and refused to testify.
  It is time the Democratic minority get to work and quit the nuisance 
motions. That is what the American people want--whether they are 
Democrats, Independents, or Republicans.

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