Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Paul Duke introduces brief item on sexual abuse hearings. Senator Paula Hawkins (R - Florida) My interest in this issue developed when I was a very young girl at age 5 and was sexually abused by a good friend of our family. I ve not told this before. I was a witness at age 5 in a court case, in California where a lot of other children testified also. All the children were judged by the judge to be lying. And I ll remember that to my dying day Children, ages 4 to 10 approx, seated at table as a panel.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Paul Duke introduces brief item on bankruptcy reform was held up, extension of old bill complicated by Reagan s trip to China. Congressman Dan Glickman (D - Kansas) This bill, if passed today, will have to be flown 8,000 miles to Shanghai to be signed at a tremendous cost to the taxpayer of the United States. And probably Mr. Chairman, this is the first bill in the history of this House that has been literally Shanghaied on its way to passage.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Paul Duke introduces brief item on federal deficit. Representative Henry Hyde (R - Illinois) You want to know where's the beef , the national debt would buy 4907 Wendy s hamburgers for every American. That s over 235 million of us. You want to invite the rest of the world to lunch? How about 244 hamburgers for every person in the world.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Paul Duke introduces brief item that polls indicate public doesn't think Congress is handling national problems well. New US NEWS poll - legislators rate most respected among them, Barber Conable (R - New York), Senator Howard Baker (R - Tennessee), Representative Jim Wright rated best Speaker in House. Paul Duke notes that "two most respected Republicans , Conable and Baker are retiring.