[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              REAL REFORM COMES FROM OBEYING EXISTING LAW

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, to hear my colleagues on the left talk 
about it in concert with other folks at the other end of Pennsylvania 
Avenue, it is very interesting to hear all of these calls for campaign 
finance reform, because, in fact, mindful of these pleas at the other 
end of Pennsylvania Avenue I would equate them, Mr. Speaker, with 
Bonnie and Clyde in the midst of their crime spree calling a press 
conference to call for tougher penalties on bank robbery.
  The fact is, Mr. Speaker, real reform first comes by obeying existing 
law. That is the problem this administration has never come to grips 
with in a variety of different areas. It would be good to obey existing 
laws. That is why they are already on the books.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope the President enjoyed his round of golf today in 
the South Pacific. He came here in January and gave a State of the 
Union message and the next day went to Buffalo, New York and told the 
American people they could not be trusted with their money, and yet 
last week, he said he would trust the word of Puerto Rican terrorists 
and grant them clemency. How curious, Mr. Speaker, when the President 
of the United States will not trust the American people with their own 
money and yet trust the word of terrorists.

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