Joe Cunningham: “It is not very often in a body like this that we get to honor someone like Joe Skeen. I remember Mr. Natcher. I was a…”

“It is not very often in a body like this that we get to honor someone like Joe Skeen. I remember Mr. Natcher. I was a young freshman Member of Congress in the minority; and I was upset, like I am about the Wolf portion of this bill today that is a strike against Native Americans, and I was so upset I remember Bill Natcher said, 'Well, Duke, in Kentucky, we have horse races. And sometimes those horses come out of the block so fast that they break their legs and we have to shoot them.' And he says, 'If the gentleman will settle down, I will help him with his amendment.' Bill Natcher was like that, and Joe Skeen is the same way. He is a gentleman, and he works in a bipartisan fashion. You will be missed here, Joe; but we will not forget you. I rise in support of the Hayworth amendment. There was a gentleman on the Republican side that offered an amendment in committee that was legislating on an appropriations bill. That is supposed to be against the rules, and yet the Committee on Rules protected his amendment. That is wrong. We stopped Members' amendments on the other side. The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) knows and objects to legislating on an appropriations bill. We do it from time to time, but it does not make it right. And that is the fact with regard to this process. What we are doing as Republicans is adding a brand-new bureaucracy that oversees Indian gaming, when there has been report after report after report.…”