[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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                         IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the chairman of the House Committee 
on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Gonzalez] sent the following letter to House Speaker Foley. I quote, in 
part:

       Dear Mr. Speaker: It is time for Democrats to use the 
     truth. I recommend that the House leadership draft and 
     endorse a resolution calling for full hearings on the 
     Whitewater affair. I note that the Senate has already 
     committed itself to hearings. I suggest that House hearings 
     be held in a forum of broad reach, possibly a select 
     committee, that can explore all the charges. We have a 
     responsibility to set the record straight, which is possible 
     only through a full public hearing of every aspect of this 
     matter.
           Sincerely,
                                                Henry B. Gonzalez.

  The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Gonzalez] is absolutely right. I 
support him in an unqualified way. We do need to have a committee. I 
support the idea of a select committee. And the only thing that I would 
add is that we ought to pay for it in a fiscally responsible way. We 
ought to cut 1 percent or one-half percent from every committee in this 
House in order to pay for it so that we are not going to increase the 
deficit to do it.

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