[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 23, 1994]
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                    REPUBLICAN SHOW-TIME IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. APPLEGATE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, I think the general public is pretty 
tired of hearing all the rhetorical garbage that is spewed out on 
Whitewater by the Republicans. They say it is our constitutional duty 
to inform the public. That is bull. To them it is show-time. It is 
politics, because they think they now have an issue that is going to 
cover up their scandalous past.
  But let me say this. This is the same party that gave us the Teapot 
Dome Scandal, the Great Depression, Joseph McCarthy, Watergate, and 
Iran-Contra. I think we should have learned by the Iran-Contra hearings 
Congress is not an investigating body. Congress is a legislative body. 
We do not do too well at that.
  Oliver North and John Poindexter are not in jail because the Supreme 
Court overturned their convictions because of a technicality caused by 
congressional hearings.
  Frankly, I think the public is just tired of all this damn nonsense, 
and they are saying to us, do what we elected you to do.

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