[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 80 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPUBLICANS DELIVER FOR TOBACCO COMPANIES

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, over 
the past 3 years, the tobacco companies have delivered millions of 
dollars to the Republican National Committee and to the Republican 
Congressional Campaign Committee and to Republican Members of the House 
of Representatives and of the Senate.
  Yesterday, the United States Senate delivered for the tobacco 
companies. Yesterday, the United States Senate, after a month of debate 
and delay, voted to kill the tobacco bill, which was designed to get 
back to and pay back many of the health care costs that this government 
has spent because of tobacco illnesses and death, and to try to keep 
our young children from smoking. Yesterday the Senate killed that. They 
delivered on their campaign promises.
  Today the House sets out to do the same. It is setting out to kill 
campaign finance reform so that they can continue to keep the tobacco 
money flowing to the Republican Party.

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