[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 30006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             WALKING PAST THE GRAVEYARD OF GOOD LEGISLATION

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, today the Republicans and the Republican 
leadership are moving toward the last days of the session. They are on 
their way out of town. Unfortunately, on their way out of town they are 
going to have to walk past the graveyard of good legislation. Therein 
lies prescription drug coverage for seniors, much-needed, much-worked 
on, but killed by the Republicans. In the graveyard of good legislation 
also lies HMO reform. Our desire on the Democratic side to pass a real 
Patients' Bill of Rights which would give citizens the right to sue, 
killed by the Republicans.
  They have to walk past the graveyard that contains common sense gun 
legislation which they failed to pass so that we could control the gun 
show loophole and bring sanity to the mass hysteria that is going on in 
terms of gun violence. Finally, they have to walk past the graveyard of 
good legislation wherein lies the minimum wage bill.
  Mr. Speaker, we simply wanted to give working Americans another 
dollar in earnings over 2 years, a dollar over 2 years, killed by the 
Republicans.

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  So on their way out of town as they walk past the graveyard, they 
might remember that the ghosts may rise up to haunt them.

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