[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 80 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4726-H4727]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CONSPIRATORIAL CONGRESS

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, increasingly people across this country are 
referring to this Congress as the ``do nothing Congress.'' But more 
appropriately it might be referred to as the ``conspiratorial 
Congress.'' The leadership in this House has conspired with someone in 
this Congress to kill both antismoking legislation and campaign finance 
reform.
  The somebody yesterday succeeded in killing the antismoking 
legislation. That job has been done. Now the leadership in this House 
has got to live up to its part of the conspiracy and deliver on killing 
campaign finance reform. They are doing so by proposing a rule on the 
floor later today with an unprecedented 258 amendments designed to drag 
this issue out all through the summer into the fall. It is death to 
campaign finance reform by amendment.
  Mr. Speaker, that is the conspiracy that is going on in this 
Congress. We need Meehan-Shays on the floor. We need real campaign 
finance reform. Let us have a vote on the real bill.

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