John Hope Bryant: “It is a simple question for Members. Do you think that we should be able to continue to play golf for free, play tennis…”

“It is a simple question for Members. Do you think that we should be able to continue to play golf for free, play tennis for free, go skiing for free, fly around the country on these recreational outings that are thinly disguised vacations, or do you think we ought to impose the same limits on this House that the U.S. Senate imposed on itself 4 weeks ago? It is that simple. We ask you to vote against the previous question so that the amended rule of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] may come forward so that we can simply offer the same provisions which the Senate has applied to itself as applicable to the House. That is all there is to it. All of this gobbledegook about procedures and all the tough talk about Deschler's Rules and so forth, all of it is meaningless. It is a very simple question. There are those who believe Members of the House of Representatives ought to be able to play golf for free, who do not want to pay for their own golf or their own ski trips or their own tennis. They think the lobbyists ought to pay for it, and there are those who think it ought not to be allowed, that it ought to stop, that it is an embarrassment to the institution. There are those of us who have worked for 2 rac{1}{2} years to pass legislation to stop this outrage, and there are those who spent 2 rac{1}{2} years trying to prevent that legislation from passing.”