On the recordMay 16, 2000
We brought it all on the House floor and everybody, exhausted, votes for it. Is that the way to run a government? That is not the way we should do it. There is so much in-fighting and partisanship near the end, particularly in an election year, that we need some failsafe method. This is what the Gekas amendment does, it fully funds 100 percent of the previous years's budget at the funding levels so we can go home and not have these omnibus appropriations bills that are so awful that all of us are embarrassed to go home after voting for them. I urge my colleagues to think in terms of protecting their constituents, protecting the integrity of this office. If Members do not pass the Gekas amendment for this continuing level, they are corrupting the process. We need to pass this today.
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