House Proceeding 04-05-06 on Apr 5th, 2006 :: 0:31:19 to 0:35:43
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Speech By: James L. Oberstar

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James L. Oberstar: been shown, and i fear, the corruption that is yet to be exposed in this body. and with that, i yield back the balance of my time, and thank you the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Gil Gutknecht: gentleman from michigan. mr. ehlers: i am pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from florida, ms. brown-waite. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. brown-waite:

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Speech By: Gil Gutknecht

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Gil Gutknecht: i thank the gentleman very much. let's speculate about what will happen. what would elections and politics be like if the federal election commission regulated 527's? let's see, there might be

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Gil Gutknecht: some honesty. for example, candidates and elected officials would not be a-- able to rely on groups like moveon.org to do their dirty work. they might be a lot cleaner because billions of

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Gil Gutknecht: dollars in soft money contributions would stop and so the misleading campaigns and so would the false and message campaigns that take place in various districts almost daily. one of my colleagues

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Gil Gutknecht: said if they're aware of any misuse of the 527's in the political area, let me just state but one. the acorn group which is a political front for a liberal 527 group called america votes

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Gil Gutknecht: has also been implicated in political escapades. a former acorn worker admitted to deliberately throwing out republican registration forms and paying gathers only to collect democrat registration

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Gil Gutknecht: forms in 2004. actually, in at least one states this being investigated. is this fairness? what about those who chose to not register in the democrat party? they may have been republican, they may

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Gil Gutknecht: have decided to be an independent. do they not have a right to have their registrations turned into the local election commissioner? you know, allowing groups to hide behind faulty outdated f.e.c.

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Gil Gutknecht: and i.r.s. rules is not an option. congress must move forward and reform the laws that allow these 527's to spew their lies and fraudulent tactics on american people. . in my district i

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Gil Gutknecht: regularly get 527 calls. my constituents are wise to the fact this is an unregulated entity. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california.

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Gil Gutknecht: ms. millender-mcdonald: i yield now two minutes -- three minutes to the gentleman from illinois, mr. emanuel. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. emanuel: mr.

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Gil Gutknecht: speaker, in the wake of the jack abramoff scandal we've seen multiple indictments, members of congress resigning under a cloud of scandal, congressional approval at an historic low,

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Gil Gutknecht: and a public demand for reform. you would think that the republican leadership would want to get these scandals behind them. but it's clear, what is the first stage of grief? denial, and isolation.

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Gil Gutknecht: so here we are today discussing a bill that doesn't do anything to address the problems of the scandals facing this congress, this institution, which require an institutional solution to

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Gil Gutknecht: an institutional problem. no, this bill doesn't do anything to stop the pay to play policies of the party in power. no, it doesn't. it doesn't do anything to shut down the k street project rewarding

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Gil Gutknecht: lobbyists who show party loyalty or slow the revolving door. nope, it doesn't do that. many of you will recall that our former colleague billy tauzin negotiated a million-dollar lobbying job

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Gil Gutknecht: with the pharmaceutical industry at the same time that he was rewriting the medicare prescription drug bill. this legislation doesn't affect that. to take a hypothetical for a moment, what

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Gil Gutknecht: if a member just resigned, middle of a term, was thinking of working for companies and sitting on boards? this legislation doesn't change what would happen. it happened when congressman tauzin

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Gil Gutknecht: was out here on the floor and if you had a hypothetical of a member resigned, maybe just a hypothetical, two months left on his tenure here, this legislation doesn't affect who he meets

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Gil Gutknecht: with, who he talks with, mr. how he negotiates and how he votes while he's negotiating. to do that would you have to have a sense -- a desire for reform and i wouldn't want to impose on the majority

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Collin C. Peterson: party in any way. and all the while, while they're voting on these legislation and negotiating problems jobs he had they have no responsibility to report to the public on their conduct.

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Speech By: Collin C. Peterson