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Peter Deutsch: there is an expression that most of us have heard: ``If it walks like a duck and it sounds like a duck and it quacks…

On the recordApril 4, 1995
there is an expression that most of us have heard: ``If it walks like a duck and it sounds like a duck and it quacks like a duck and it smells like a duck, then it is probably a duck.'' But we might want to change that in this Chamber to say that ``Maybe it is Newt Gingrich.'' My, my, my--a special tax break for Rupert Murdoch, $63 million, and then blaming it on Senator Moseley-Braun. All of us might think so, but no one in America believes it. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Gingrich, no one in American believes that it was Senator Mosley-Braun. You know it was you. You know what was involved. It would not have happened without you, and it is wrong. It is business as usual in this Chamber, and it is wrong. I urge the President to veto this legislation. He needs to veto it. It is not what the American people want. It is the absolute wrong way we ought to be conducting ourselves in this Chamber.
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Peter Deutsch
Florida

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Addressing a special tax break for Rupert Murdoch and criticizing Newt Gingrich's role in it.

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