[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 22, 1994]
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              BIPARTISAN HEARINGS NECESSARY ON WHITEWATER

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, there is a great deal of debate about whether 
the Congress should conduct hearings and an investigation of the 
Whitewater affair. I believe the Congress should fulfill its 
constitutional duties to oversee the executive branch in this matter. 
The Democratic Congress did that at least 12 times in the last decade, 
and now that same Democratic-controlled Congress should take that 
responsibility, even though we have a Democrat President. Party should 
play no role in this event.
  Mr. Speaker, I believe that the leadership of this Congress now 
believes that they can have an investigation of Whitewater and related 
events without interfering with the ongoing criminal investigation and 
without providing immunity to witnesses. We can do this and still 
conduct a good hearing.
  The fact is, if it were not for the RTC oversight hearings in the 
Senate, we would not have known about the meetings between the White 
House and the Treasury Department.
  Clearly Congress has a role to play in this matter. It is time we 
held bipartisan hearings on this very important issue.

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