NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “That is as false as false can be. The Minority Leader demonstrates in that statement why he will remain the Minority…”

“That is as false as false can be. The Minority Leader demonstrates in that statement why he will remain the Minority Leader if, in fact, he remains in this Chamber because I believe exactly the opposite is true. Mr. Speaker, we should trust the American people, and that may shock my colleagues here, Mr. Speaker, having been the No. 1 target of the Washington union bosses, having had $2.1 million pumped into my campaign for my adversary to falsely characterize my record. But you see in America, Mr. Speaker, I believe that people even have the right to disagree with me to the point that they can choose to mischaracterize the record because I believe as Abraham Lincoln said: The American people, once fully informed, will make the right decision, and fully informing them is up to me in my role as a candidate and as a Member of Congress and as a citizen of the United States. So what we have here, Mr. Speaker and the gentleman from California, is a cynical, sadly misguided attempt to explain to us how we should abridge constitutional freedoms.”