[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 160 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          STAY AND FINISH WORK

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, Democrats have spent the past 11 months 
fighting for legislation that would help America's working families. 
Democrats have worked to improve America's public schools while 
Republicans tried to pass a voucher program, a proposal that would 
siphon off taxpayer dollars, hard-earned taxpayer dollars, to fund an 
experiment to take kids out of public education and fund private 
education in this country.
  Democrats have fought to reform America's political system, while 
Republicans have refused to even debate campaign finance reform. They 
do not want to reform the system, they want to talk about it.
  Democrats have demanded an end to the Dornan-Sanchez investigation, 
while Republicans have prolonged this taxpayer-funded political witch 
hunt.
  Now the Republicans want to pack their bags, head home, but important 
work is left to be done in this Congress: education reform; IRS reform, 
which is stuck in the other body because the Republicans do not want to 
move it; campaign finance reform. We should not leave until our work is 
complete.

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