[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 148 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11027]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 A DO-NOTHING CONGRESS? SIMPLY NOT TRUE

  (Mr. COBLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, I rarely come to these also 1-minutes, but I 
could not maintain silence after what I have been hearing they say. 
They say we are a do-nothing Congress, we are not concerned about the 
average Joe or Jane.
  Capital gains tax reduction. The increase of the estate tax exemption 
threshold, which means that the tax man will be delayed when he comes a 
calling after someone has lost a loved one. Welfare reform. IRS reform. 
Balanced Budget Amendment.
  Now does anyone in range of my voice believe that either of these 
five could have been done without a Republican majority in the people's 
House? Obviously not because it has not been done before.
  I keep hearing my friends to my right, to my ideological left, 
claiming about campaign finance reform, nothing has been done about it. 
Well, Mr. Speaker, they were in control of the People's House for 40 
years, and nothing was done about it.
  I am very much offended, Mr. Speaker, by people who come to the well 
of this House and point an accusatory finger and accuse this 105th 
Congress of doing nothing. It is simply not true.

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