[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25938]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               LAME DUCK

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, shame on us for pursuing this bizarre 
charade of a session. The House is gone. We all know we are coming back 
for a lame duck session, and to criticize those like the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Lazio) who cannot be here, how dare you attack our friend 
from New York in that way. We instead should adjourn this House; and we 
should instead reconvene the week after the election, and hopefully 
then we will get a prescription drug benefit in Medicare; hopefully 
then we will raise the minimum wage; and hopefully then the Republican 
leadership will stand behind its negotiators so we can actually get 
something done in this House.

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