[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 31, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1783-H1784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               DO-NOTHING CONGRESS IN RECESS FROM REALITY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, as this Congress concludes the first 100 
days of 1998, it is quite appropriately in recess. Indeed, the 
Republican leadership of this House has been in recess for most of this 
year on most issues that could really make a difference in the lives of 
most Americans.
  They were in recess yesterday when, after demands for over a year to 
have a real debate on how to get the big money influence in this 
Congress controlled, they presented a phony bill that was rejected by 
even most of their own Members. They talk about taxes, but when it 
comes to closing the tax loopholes and ending the corporate welfare for 
those same big money contributors, this Congress has been in recess. 
When it comes to passing a budget that would protect Social Security 
first, in recess. On child care, on improving the quality of education, 
on

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pension protection, they have been in recess.
  The first 100 days of this Republican Congress: a do-nothing Congress 
in recess, in recess from reality.

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