[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 112 (Tuesday, August 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H6850-H6851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          NETWORKS NOT COVERING GREENSPAN STATEMENTS PROPERLY

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Madam Speaker, today is the first installment of our 
Media Watch. Media Watch is an effort to cover the stories the networks 
will not cover, the stories which are distorted by liberals, and the 
stories which are buried in the back pages for political reasons.

[[Page H6851]]

  As always, there is a lot to choose from, but I think most people 
would agree that the way the major networks covered Federal Reserve 
Chairman Alan Greenspan's comments on the Republican tax proposal 
deserves a second look.
  Anybody watching ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN would come away thinking that 
the Federal Reserve Chairman opposed the Republican tax cuts and felt 
them unwise.
  Well, Alan Greenspan's comments were not exactly as they were 
portrayed. In fact, the Chairman warned against more spending. Those 
comments were ignored. In fact, the Chairman said that if the choice 
were between more spending and tax cuts, he thought tax cuts made 
sense, and that more spending would be the worst of all outcomes.
  Surprise, surprise. We get spin from the networks.

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