[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 144 (Monday, October 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PRESIDENT SHOULD BE IN WASHINGTON, NOT ATTENDING FUNDRAISERS FOR 
                          DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, we have been hearing a lot of panicky people 
up here today on the other side. The truth is that the basic 
appropriations have been done for a long time. We have been held up 
over some disagreements that we have known that were going to come for 
a year. Yet the administration, apparently because a lot of staffers 
were running around working on apology statements or coming up with 
legal strategies, is only now starting to focus and dragging in day 
after day.
  I want to go through one other thing. This is the President's 
schedule for this afternoon, when we are on the verge of a government 
shutdown:
  At 2:45, he is going to make a statement on the South Lawn;
  At 3:05, he boards Air Force One;
  At 3:15, he heads for Andrews Air Force base;
  When he gets to New York, he arrives at the Wall Street Landing Zone.
  Then, at 5:05, he boards a motorcade that departs for Wall Street for 
a fundraiser at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel;
  At 5:05, he arrives at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel;
  At 5:55, he greets a reception in honor of a New York gubernatorial 
candidate;
  At 6:30, he concludes his remarks; and
  At 6:45, he goes over to the Hilton Towers for a fundraiser for the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Charles Schumer).
  He should be here, not at hotels in New York raising money.

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