[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H3978-H3979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CALIFORNIA ELECTION RESULTS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the

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House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, before I give my one minute, I 
just would like to publicly thank our colleague, the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Hall) for his trip to Sudan and calling attention to a 
tragic, tragic situation. I thank him.
  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in the California elections, the people of 
California rejected a cynical attempt to stifle the voices of working 
families in America, to stifle the voices of concerned nonprofit 
organizations.
  Proposition 226 was an effort by the Republican leadership and the 
Republican Party to lash out at working families and to deny members of 
unions the ability to participate in the political process in this 
country, a right that they are guaranteed under the Constitution. It 
was cynically dubbed the Paycheck Protection Act. It had nothing to do 
with protecting people's paychecks. It had everything to do with trying 
to get back at organized labor in this country for the very effective 
campaign they ran in the last national elections on behalf of President 
Clinton and on behalf of many Members of the Congress where they told 
the truth about what the Republican leadership and majority was trying 
to do in this House of Representatives in denying people the rights and 
fundamental basic ability to raise their family.

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