[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 1, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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   UNION BOSSES TAKING MONEY FROM WORKING FAMILIES TO PAY FOR THEIR 
                            POLITICAL AGENDA

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot about campaign finance 
reform, and America thinks it is important that we have the freedom to 
support candidates that lift up the same ideals they do, freedom to 
determine which candidate will push for the public policies that will 
create a better America for their children.
  But many working men and women in America cannot do that. See, every 
month they have taken from their paychecks compulsory union dues, and 
more than 80 percent of those dues come right here to Washington where 
union bosses obtain it. These union bosses are taking money from 
working families who are struggling to provide for their families, and 
they spend it on their own political agenda and on their own union 
candidates.
  Mr. Speaker, that is not freedom, that is oppression. It is wrong, 
the Supreme Court said it was wrong in the Beck decision, and so we 
cannot have campaign finance reform without freeing American workers 
from the unlawful burden.
  Let us make the Beck decision the law of the land.

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