Honorable Tom DeLay
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative DeLay, of the Twenty-Second District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1978 to 1984. He is currently the House Majority Whip and a member of the Appropriations Committee. The following statement is from the House floor debate of August 3, 1998, on amendments to H.R. 2183, the Bipartisan Campaign Integrity Act. As everyone knows, I am opposed to this Shays-Meehan fiasco. It is not reform. This is just another example of big government picking winners and losers, and in my opinion the winners…