[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 40 (Wednesday, April 1, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1858]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            VOTE YES ON H.R. 1151, CREDIT UNION ACCESS BILL

  (Mr. KANJORSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, today one out of four Americans will have 
an opportunity to keep their eye on the House of Representatives as we 
will have an opportunity to take up H.R. 1151, the Credit Union Access 
Bill which will allow 70 million Americans to exercise their right of 
choice for financial services in this country.
  I want to compliment the 207 sponsors and cosponsors on both sides of 
the aisle of this legislation. I further want to compliment the 
bipartisan spirit of the Speaker, the minority leader and minority 
whip, Mr. Bonior, who sponsored the bill, the chairman of the Committee 
on Rules and, most particularly, the chairman and the ranking member of 
the Committee on Banking and Financial Services who, working together, 
have shown what a bipartisan effort can do in the House of 
Representatives when the job has to get done.
  Today, as we pass under suspension H.R. 1151 and send it on to the 
Senate, we will be performing an act that is truly American in the best 
spirit of the cooperative movement of the credit union movement of 
America. All I ask is all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to 
express their aid and assistance for the credit union movement by 
voting yes on H.R. 1151.

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