[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHO WROTE THIS BILL?

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, we should pay special attention to the 
sections drafted under the supervision of the chairman of the Ways and 
Means Committee.
  Chairman Charlie Rangel supervised the drafting of 70 pages of this 
bill, pages 296 through 366. This is the same Congressman under 
investigation by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct on five 
separate counts: using official resources to raise money; problems with 
apartment leases; undisclosed ownership in Dominican Republic Yacht 
Club; compliance with the storage rules of the House; and problems with 
his financial disclosure and income tax.
  This bill raises your taxes, but ethics is investigating whether 
Rangel paid his. Leaders may respond with two spins: Chairman Rangel 
had nothing to do with writing this bill, or, he has no ethics 
problems.
  A 2,000-page bill and a coming manager's amendment that will be a 
chamber of horrors of special deals, supervised by a Congressman under 
five separate ethics investigations, that is what we will vote on this 
week.

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