[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, A LOT OF TALK AND A LOT OF CHALK

  (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, like a lot of my colleagues, I went up to 
Hershey, Pennsylvania, had a lot of talk and a lot of chalk. We went up 
to talk about how we are going to restore civility in this body. We 
talked about unfair allocation of staff and money. We talked about 
unfair committee ratios, the most unfair in 50 years.
  We did not talk about the unfortunate thing that happened this 
morning, and that is the unavailability of rooms for Democratic members 
to meet in this body.
  Now we can talk about the prerogatives of the Chair and the 
Republicans to run this place. I do not have any quarrel and I do not 
really expect to win, but I do expect to have fair treatment and a fair 
opportunity to talk.
  The question is, are the Republicans going to mean what they said 
about restoring civility?

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  Yesterday we came back and voted on staff and money, an unfair 
allocation of both. But to just say that they cannot make rooms 
available for the Democrats to meet, it looks like the preponderance of 
the growing evidence is the Republicans do not intend to be fair, and 
that the spirit of Hershey has gone.

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