[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 58 (Thursday, May 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 12, 1994]
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                        TODAY IS DISCLOSURE DAY

  (Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the gentleman from Iowa 
[Mr. Leach] filed suit to get Federal regulatory agencies to release 
documents relating to Whitewater. Today should be disclosure day.
  There are those who imagine they are doing the President a favor by 
covering up and sweeping away all Whitewater evidence.
  They are wrong. But such is their right to be wrong.
  However, they overstep their rights and the rights of this 
institution when they encourage officials of the executive branch to 
not comply with Congress.
  Disclosure is central to an open government. Disclosure is central to 
you and I as citizens being able to control that government.
  It is amazing and appalling that those who are seeking to protect the 
President are willing to raise Whitewater to a constitutional question. 
Documents pertaining to other politically sensitive cases have been 
released before. The only reason they are not now being released is 
because the person under scrutiny is the President, whose party 
controls this institution.
  It is time for the President and his party to quit playing hide and 
seek with the American people. It is time for full disclosure now.

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