[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17796]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   CONGRESSIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM DEFEATS AMERICAN LEAGUE OF LOBBYISTS

  (Mr. QUINN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. QUINN. Mr. Speaker, I am here to announce that for the second 
year in a row now, the Congressional basketball team has defeated the 
team of lobbyists from the American League of Lobbyists here in 
Washington, D.C. Last night's game was a hard-earned victory of 70-67.
  The Congressional team got together in a bipartisan way. I would like 
to mention that the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Barrett); the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo); the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Hulshof); the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Oxley), our general manager 
and commissioner; the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Buyer); the gentleman 
from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), our MVP last night; the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Kind); the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Inslee); the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Fossella); the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Shimkus); and the gentleman from California (Mr. Baca) all got 
together in an effort to prove that we can get along here in Washington 
and that we can do better when the cause is right.
  Last night the American League of Lobbyists organized a benefit for 
over $17,000 that will go to charity for the Hill staffers, for the 
hungry and homeless, for Horton's kids, and for Everybody Wins, a youth 
mentoring program here in the Washington, D.C. area.
  We set a challenge for the lobbyists we can get along better, and we 
are going to make sure that some young people here in Washington, D.C., 
benefit from it.

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