[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1685]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        MEMBERS SHOULD SIGN CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCHARGE PETITION

  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, with regard to the last discussion 
regarding the schedule for Monday and the question of whether or not we 
should have a true discussion of campaign finance reform, let me remind 
all of my colleagues that we have a discharge petition at the Clerk's 
desk. It has 187 signatures on it.
  If we can get to 218 Members of the House who wish to see campaign 
finance reform, all ideas, the Shays-Meehan and all other ideas of 
serious debate on campaign finance reform, all we have to do is line up 
here at the Clerk's desk and get 218 signatures, and the regular order 
of the House will prevail, and we will be able to have the kind of 
discussion for campaign finance reform that I believe the overwhelming 
majority of Members on both sides of the aisle really would like to 
see.
  But it is up to us now. Since the leadership has ruled, rather 
arbitrarily, on how we shall proceed, it is up to Members of the House 
to use regular House order and sign the discharge petition.

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