[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
BEGIN WITH CONSERVING THE HEALTH OF AMERICA'S YOUNG PEOPLE
(Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, it is alarming, but hardly surprising, to
find the House Republican leadership continuing to do the bidding of
the tobacco lobby. Within the last few days, the Speaker has declared
that Joe Camel had nothing to do with youth smoking, and today the
House Republican whip has opposed efforts in an article in the Wall
Street Journal, of course, to reduce youth smoking by raising the price
of tobacco.
This is the same House Republican leadership that last year thought
the way to a tobacco settlement was to approve a $50 billion tax break
for the tobacco lobby. The only thing I can find to agree on this
subject with Speaker Gingrich on is we need a conservative approach, a
very conservative approach that begins with conserving the health of
America's young people; not protecting the nicotine peddlers who have
exploited them at the same time they have funded the Republican Party.
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