[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       VOTE AGAINST THE TAX BILL

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the real casualty, it looks like, from 
the 11th of September was the democracy that this House represents. We 
were told we could have unlimited 1-minutes today, and suddenly they do 
not want to have us talk. They do not want to have us talk in hearings. 
They do not want to bring in people to tell us what these bills are 
going to do, so today you are going to be faced with a bill that had 1 
hour of hearings. Nobody came and told us any of the facts about what 
was in the bill. So we are going to go out when we go home this weekend 
and tell our friends and neighbors in our district, buy war bonds so 
you can give $1.4 billion to IBM, buy war bonds so you can give $2.3 
billion to the Ford Motor Company. That is going to stimulate the 
economy, folks. That really is. Without one hearing.
  What else do we have to do but talk? We do not have an office. We do 
not have staff. We do not have anything else, but we cannot talk in the 
House of the people. That is shameful. You ought to vote against that 
tax bill on no other reason than that alone.

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