[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10945-10946]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DISCLOSE ACT EXEMPTIONS

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission

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to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, there is 
uncertainty on this floor as I speak as to whether or not we are going 
to bring up the DISCLOSE Act this day in the Rules Committee or on this 
floor this week. The reason appears to be that a special exemption has 
been given to just a select number of groups, starting with the 
National Rifle Association, but also not including the Gun Owners of 
America; including the Humane Society, but not including other 
agricultural groups in America.
  In other words, we are saying that free speech is free for some but 
not all. And as I looked at this exemption that's been given, you have 
to have over a million members. You have to have members in all 50 
States. You have to have existed for more than 10 years. It is obvious 
we have now gone from too big to fail to too big to file. In other 
words, if you have got enough juice here, you are not going to be 
included. But if you do, you are going to be excluded, and you are 
going to be allowed in this election period to fully use your First 
Amendment rights. That's not what the Constitution's all about.

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