[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1686]
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                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his.
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe what we have just heard 
from the other side of the aisle here, the substance of which was 
pathetic. Can you imagine trying some way, somehow to excuse the 
outrageous behavior of the Republican leadership on the floor of House 
of Representatives right now?
  Every major newspaper in the country was outraged at the fact that 
they had a rigged rule. If that was not bad enough to have a rigged 
rule, they took that off, because the McCain-Feingold-Shays-Meehan bill 
was about to pass this House. Now they are going to bring up the 
campaign financial reform suspension, unprecedented, that requires a 
two-thirds vote before anything could pass.
  The leaders of campaign finance reform in this institution are 
outraged. The American people get what is going on. It is an outrage 
that this leadership is going to, after promising campaign finance 
reform, is going to bring this up when one of our Members is being 
buried and other Members want to be out at the service.
  I cannot believe the total disregard to the public interest that we 
have seen here this afternoon, an absolute outrage. I have never seen 
it this bad before. The American people see what is going on here, and 
it is a disgrace.

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