[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           NATIONAL DO-NOTHING DAY ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, without a doubt, this Congress today can go 
down in history as the biggest do-nothing Congress in memory. It has 
done less work on this floor in 3 months than the ordinary American 
would do in 3 weeks. Indeed, if we really think about all the important 
issues that have been taken up here, this Congress could have met for 3 
days and gone home.
  Having achieved the ability to do nothing better than anyone else 
noticed in this country, this Gingrich Congress will tomorrow declare 
``National Do-Nothing Day'' on campaign finance reform. I see for years 
they have been promising to do something to fix the corrupting 
influence of campaign dollars, and tomorrow they will devote a couple 
of hours to talking about it and then doing nothing. They have cut off 
any real debate on proposals, not only of Democrats, but some of the 
Republicans who came forward with specific proposals to fix this 
perverted, broken system.
  This Gingrich Congress defends doing it the same old way to let the 
tobacco companies come in here and dump billions of dollars into this 
corrupt system.

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