[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9727]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 VOTE NO ON THE OMNIBUS PARKS PORK BILL

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, today's Washington Post Editorial calls 
the Republican Omnibus Parks Bill ``pork.'' The Washington Post did not 
get it quite right. It is not just a pork bill, it is the pork bill 
straight from the environmental butchers. People in Georgia are very 
concerned about the bill's provision for Cumberland Island. This bill 
will carve up Cumberland Island, so that it can be served on a silver 
platter to one of America's wealthiest families.
  The butchery of Cumberland Island is not just pork, it is old 
fashioned Republican service with a smile. What else can we expect from 
the Republican Party. They failed their polluting friends when they 
wanted to dirty our water and air. Now they are trying to let their 
other friends buy our national treasures. In contrast to the TV 
commercial, this work is not the other white meat. This pork bill is 
Republican green.
  Republicans have always believed that America should reward the 
wealthiest and most privileged among us. And what better way to keep 
giving to the rich than by robbing the American people of a national 
treasurer of Cumberland Island.
  If this bill makes it out of Congress, I will urge the President to 
veto it. I ask my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this pork bill.

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