[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H8166-H8167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DEMOCRATS CALLING FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM GIVES HYPOCRISY A BAD 
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  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Madam Speaker, to hear the liberals call for campaign 
finance reform is like Marv Albert scolding Mike Tyson for using his 
biting skills in an inappropriate manner.
  Democrats have had to return over $2 million, $2 million, Madam 
Speaker, because they raised illegal money from foreign sources. In a 
town awash in hypocrisy, Democrats, who ran roughshod over existing 
fundraising laws in the last election, are giving hypocrisy a bad name.
  One would expect the always fair, unbiased media to laugh them out of 
town when they hear the very same people who broke the law call for 
reform of the law. But here is the real

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shocker: The ever-balanced media, far from exposing their hypocrisy, 
are leading the way for calls in campaign finance reform.
  How many times have we heard our liberal elite friends in the media 
say, ``The real tragedy is not what is illegal but what is legal.'' 
Yes, shaking down impoverished Indian tribes, illegally mixing DNC 
funds with Teamster money, soliciting money from foreign nationals, 
laundering money and shredding evidence; no, I suppose that is not the 
real tragedy.

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