Greg Ganske

I appreciate the advice. Let me talk about a parable. There is a book down in the lobby. It is called House Mouse, Senate Mouse. It is a little book that I take to grade schools, usually about third-graders, and I read this story about the…

I highly recommend it. Let me once again point out that on the Internet this is under http://www.citizen.org/Congress/reform/HMO-Senate.htm. That report concludes that there is a strong body of evidence linking pro-managed care industry…

tonight we will talk about two aspects of health care that are important. The first will be about the conference committee that is going on in regards to the HMO reform bill that passed both the House and the Senate. For our colleagues and…

the number one public health problem facing the country today is the death and morbidity associated with the use of tobacco. Tonight, I want to discuss why the use of tobacco is so harmful, what the tobacco companies have known about the…

on January 16, 60 Minutes broadcast into the homes of millions of Americans an important story about water quality. A chemical additive is used to improve a car's performance and clean the air. It has seeps into groundwater supplies…

because the EPA knew the potential for widespread MTBE water contamination back in 1987, I think it shares some responsibility in helping States remedy contaminated water supplies. Therefore, my bill raises the importance of MTBE within…

that report succinctly addresses the health risks associated with ethanol inhalation, and I would like to read a couple of excerpts from the report. The occupational standards for ethanol in air is 1,000 parts per million on an 8-hour…

I rise tonight to clarify points about HMO legislation before Congress for my colleagues, particularly members of the conference committee, and to specifically address two memoranda that have been recently released by the Heritage…

as an Iowa Republican Congressman who is Catholic and has been supported by Christian conservatives as well as moderates, I feel compelled to comment on the Bob Jones University and the House Chaplain controversies. Mr. Speaker, I went to…

there are many proposals out there for campaign finance reform. One of the more interesting ones I have recently seen was a proposal that would prevent incumbents from transferring funds from one Federal campaign to another, i.e., let us…

Is it not true that a member of a labor union can tell his union, I do not want any of my union dues used for that?

even if there is not wrongdoing, then there is certainly the appearance of wrongdoing. Let me give the gentleman an example. One of the largest contributors to the Democratic National Committee was the chairman of Loral. Now, Loral needed…

What I want to say is this: I agree with you. This should not be an issue decided on what is the best thing for my party, okay? I do not make that kind of decision when I look at this legislation. I think about what is best for the…

This brings back to me vivid memories of 1995 and 1996. Let me give the gentleman an example. In 1995, President Clinton started his White House soirees and fundraising and the Lincoln Bedroom and all of that and helped the Democratic…

Now, some people say that these issue ads, banning them would just protect incumbents. I disagree with that. Issue ads are run on both sides. They are run for incumbents, and they are run for challengers.

There are two issues here, I agree. One is the issue advocacy ad and the other is the soft money. But the funding for those ads came from soft money. Now, I do not have a problem with a labor union forming a PAC and using that PAC money…

That was the maximum he received. He received millions of smaller contributions, just as all the presidential candidates have. That is the current law. We ought to be clear. There is nothing wrong with that. You do not think there is…

Let me just interject. The gentleman is right. I was talking about two issues at the same time. One was the issue of personal advocacy and the other was soft money. Some of these issue ads were run with millions and millions of dollars of…

I want to speak about HMO reform and about campaign finance reform today. Let me start out with HMO reform. A few years ago down in Texas, the Texas Legislature passed a series of HMO reform bills almost unanimously in their State…

this needs to be reemphasized. When we are talking about banning phoney issue ads, we are not talking about organizations that cannot put up those ads. We are just talking about the way they have to be financed.

Let me give the gentleman another example. The Democratic National Committee ran this ad. Soft money again. "Protect families. For millions of working families, President Clinton cut taxes. The Dole-Gingrich budget tried to raise taxes on…

And the sham issue ads may be funded by soft money, i.e., if they are paid for by the national parties. But they may also be paid for by who knows who.

Who knows. Who knows. Then you have basically a lack of truth in labeling, because you could have some committee set up that sounds great, the Committee to Save Medicare or something like that.

we just saw a report in Roll Call, the newspaper that covers the Hill, that shows that the Democratic Congressional Committee has raised more in soft money than the National Republican Congressional Committee.

I think it is also true that some Departments of Labor under different Presidents more vigorously than others required that that Beck decision be made known to members of unions.