[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 25, 1994]
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                      LET THE PRESIDENT DO HIS JOB

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from Georgia [Ms. McKinney] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to read into the record today 
portions of a letter I received from Charlotte M. Dixon--one of my 
constituents in Stone Mountain, GA:

       I pay taxes and I vote, and I am writing you to say I don't 
     care one bit about this 10 year old Whitewater junk, or 
     anything else this President might or might not have done 
     before he was elected President. President Bill Clinton won 
     this latest election because the people wanted the changes he 
     promised to try to make in this country, and I want you, as a 
     Congressperson elected to represent my state, to help him do 
     exactly that.
       I care about the thousands of hungry and homeless people we 
     have. I can't go to a concert or a play in downtown Atlanta 
     without literally stumbling over some poor homeless person on 
     Peachtree Street.
       If a gay person wants to serve his or her country in the 
     military, then I believe they should be allowed to do so, and 
     we should be grateful. The Tailhook incident seemed to me to 
     indicate a serious problem with the heterosexual males in the 
     military.
       As a woman and as a mother of two daughters, I care about 
     women's rights, including the right to safe and legal 
     abortion.
       All these things and more, I care about. I am not the least 
     bit interested in whether President Clinton has ever had an 
     affair.
       And while I'm at it, I want to say that I'm very glad that 
     Hillary is trying to help him do this.
       I don't like this distraction, and I don't like my tax 
     money being spent for this ridiculous investigation.
       You people need to get a grip here, and start doing what we 
     sent you all to Washington to do.

  I agree with you, Ms. Dixon. More of us in Congress need to put the 
American people first and let the President do his job!

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