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Jack Kingston: “This morning while reading H.R. 4-1-98, I found hidden deep in the Senate appropriations bill a $60,000 expenditure to…”

On the recordApril 1, 1998
This morning while reading H.R. 4-1-98, I found hidden deep in the Senate appropriations bill a $60,000 expenditure to install telephones in the Members-only Congressional bathrooms. That is right, $60,000 for Members to conduct business while doing their business. Emergency phones for emergencies. While Members have little time to waste, Mr. Speaker, that does not mean we have any more emergencies than the next guy. And, what is worse, this proposal calls for drilling holes in the historic mahogany shoeshine chair, which was donated to the House of Representatives by the Woodrow Wilson estate. Mr. Speaker, this is not good waste management. Let us see this proposal, H.R. 4-1-98, for the joke that it is, or we would be a bunch of April fools.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Criticizing a $60,000 expenditure for telephones in Congressional bathrooms during a floor speech.

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