[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1027]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             LOIS CAPPS ELECTED TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was a very important day. I 
suppose that gets said a lot of times here in the well. But yesterday, 
the American people, in the form of the California delegation, elected 
Lois Capps to the House of Representatives. It was a campaign filled 
with millions of dollars of advertisement about abortion and about term 
limits and about a lot of other irrelevant issues.
  But the American people voted for a candidate who said she wanted to 
come back here and work on education, who wanted to come back here and 
work on a patients' bill of rights, who wanted to come back here and do 
the things that affect the American people.
  People of her district listened to all these television ads. I mean, 
they cannot get away from it. The air was filled with it. She spent 
$1,600,000. And this House has never yet brought out on this floor for 
debate a campaign finance reform bill. The people said we want somebody 
who is going to work on our problems.

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