Zoe Lofgren: “in listening to the prior speaker, it occurred to me that perhaps he has not searched the Web extensively because I…”

“in listening to the prior speaker, it occurred to me that perhaps he has not searched the Web extensively because I heard the analogy to committee reports. Now I am new to the Congress, but I read some committee reports and they tend to go through legislation, and there are pros and cons on each side, and they are bound together in one volume. I think that is just dandy. That is the way it ought to be. But if you take a look at Web sites, that is not what you find. For example, in the Committee on Resources Web site there is a picture of the chairman, along with articles like, ``The Republican Investment in the Environment,'' which is bookmarked under ``Humor'' on the Web, and there is a small link to Democrats buried under committee information. The Joint Economic Committee opens with, ``Welcome to the home page of Vice Chairman Saxton and House Republican members of the JEC.'' It then links to each Republican JEC House member and the JEC Republicans in the Senate, and provides the text of partisan Republican publications on the ``Contract With America'' and the ``Debt Limit Charade.'' These are not like committee reports, and requiring the minority to be just a subset of the majority on Web sites is kind of like saying you can send out a press release, minority, but only if you staple it to the majority's press release, if they send one out. That is what I object to. I think it is what most Members who are speaking here object to.”