[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25936]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          THIS SESSION IS OVER

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I just want to take issue with the last 
speaker. It is very obvious that the Republican leadership has no 
intention of doing any more work here in the House of Representatives. 
There is barely a majority here to even vote on any measure. The Senate 
has already left. The other body has already left. To suggest in any 
way to the American people after having spent 2 years without passing a 
Patients' Bill of Rights, without passing a Medicare prescription drug 
benefit, without doing anything with regard to education initiatives 
that somehow this House or the other body are going to do some work 
over the next few days before the election is patently absurd.
  Let us not kid the American people. This session is over. I am here 
and a lot of us are here, but we know very well that no work could 
possibly be done and the Republicans have failed to accomplish anything 
for the American


people. They might as well admit it rather than keeping on with this 
rhetoric this evening.

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