[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 343 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 343

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the award of 
 attorneys' fee, costs, and sanctions of $285,864.78 ordered by United 
 States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth on December 18, 1997, should 
                    not be paid with taxpayer funds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 1998

   Mr. Hayworth (for himself, Mr. Armey, Mr. Archer, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 
    DeLay, Mr. Boehner, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
   Livingston, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Salmon, Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Stump) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the award of 
 attorneys' fee, costs, and sanctions of $285,864.78 ordered by United 
 States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth on December 18, 1997, should 
                    not be paid with taxpayer funds.

Whereas the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, convened by 
        President Clinton in 1993, was charged with calling together officials 
        of the Federal Government and others to debate critical health issues of 
        concern to the American Public;
Whereas the Task Force convened behind closed doors and inappropriately included 
        individuals who were not employees of the Federal Government;
Whereas United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled in Association of 
        American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., et al. versus Hillary Rodham 
        Clinton, et al., that representatives of the administration engaged in 
        ``dishonest'' and ``reprehensible'' conduct in characterizing the 
        membership of the Task Force;
Whereas Judge Royce C. Lamberth on the basis of such conduct ruled against the 
        now-defunct Task Force, and ordered the defendants to pay $285,864.78 in 
        attorneys' fees, costs, and sanctions for the plaintiffs; and
Whereas American taxpayers should not be held responsible for the inappropriate 
        conduct of Federal Government officials and lawyers involved with the 
        Task Force: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the award of $285,864.78 in attorneys' fees, costs, and sanctions that 
Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the defendants to pay in Association of 
American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., et al. versus Hillary Rodham 
Clinton, et al., should not be paid with taxpayer funds.
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