[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 73 (Friday, June 9, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H3647]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                          REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, some of the things that happen in this place 
are enough to give hypocrisy a bad name. Example: I got a letter just 3 
days ago from about 30 Republican Members of the House demanding that 
we add funding back for the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
  All but one of those Republican Members voted for a budget resolution 
that makes it impossible for us to do what they ask us to do in that 
letter. That is what I call posing for political holy pictures in the 
most cynical way.
  Mr. Speaker, the second thing I would say is for any Member to come 
to the floor and ask that we fully fund programs like the Byrne Grant 
or any other grant, I would simply say this: Those who voted against 
the budget resolution have a perfect right to do that. Those who voted 
for the budget resolution need to simply look in the mirror to see why 
we do not have the money to do what they have just come to the floor 
and asked us to do.

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