NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I rise to support the Thomas amendment. I also rise to discuss some very interesting comments made by my friend from…”

“I rise to support the Thomas amendment. I also rise to discuss some very interesting comments made by my friend from Massachusetts, followed up by my friend from Maine. I appreciate my friend from Massachusetts quoting the late great Senator from my State, Barry Goldwater. I think it is important also to remember the context of Senator Goldwater's quote, because, ladies and gentlemen of the House and ladies and gentlemen of America who join us beyond these walls via C-SPAN, a check of the complete Goldwater record indicates that our late great senior Senator was talking about liberty and freedom of expression within the context of those who had that right denied by the coercive actions of organized labor bosses who reached into their pockets against their will to advocate causes with which the rank and file disagreed. Indeed, I note with interest, this dispatch from U.S.A. Today, May 30, 1996, Dateline, Portland, Maine, the campaign in which my friend from Maine was involved, "By air, the AFL-CIO has spent more than $500,000 on a series of television ads criticizing Jim Longley's votes on Medicare, student loans, and private pensions. The ads have helped make Portland the political advertising capital of the Nation.”