[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 61 (Thursday, May 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3262]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (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, I rise today and perhaps I should ask for 
a moment of silence because the vote that was taken to table the 
privileged resolution from the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt) 
is a sad moment in the House of Representatives.
  I have the distinct honor and pleasure of serving on the Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight. The fact that we have had a difficult 
time in the administration of our mission over the last 18 months is 
evident to everyone in this Chamber and everyone in this Nation.
  The privileged resolution would have given this House the opportunity 
to air the problems in that committee and to attempt to find a solution 
so that we could move on in our mission of adequate investigation of 
financial and campaign finance violations of the 1996 election.
  I think, as a result of our failure to use the debate process on that 
privileged resolution, we will find that May 14, 1998, by a vote of 
223-196, this House has decided not to reform campaign finance but to 
start the political campaign of 1998.

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