[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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               BANKING COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES WHITEWATER

  (Mr. KING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker, last night the Democratic majority on the 
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs demonstrated 
conclusively to the American people how desperate they are to keep the 
American people from learning the truth about Whitewater. As I was 
pursuing a line of questioning of Maggie Williams, the First Lady's 
Chief of Staff, showing conclusively that either she or Roger Altman, 
the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, is not telling the truth 
regarding White House involvement and interference in the Whitewater 
investigation, Chairman Gonzalez attempted to gag me and Maxine Waters, 
the gentlewoman from California, interrupted me and told me to shut up.
  Mr. Speaker, this, even for the gentlewoman from California, went to 
a new low. I want her to know as long as I am on that committee and so 
long as I am in this House, she is not going to tell me to shut up, she 
is not going to tell the American people to shut up, and I am not going 
to stop until we get to the root of Whitewater.
  The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Gonzalez] has to realize and the 
Democratic members of that Whitewater committee have to realize they 
can no longer continue to cover up the truth from the American people. 
They cannot shout down elected representatives.
  I would just say to the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Waters], can 
you imagine the reaction if anyone had told her to shut up, what she 
would be claiming, the allegations she would be making? There is no 
double standard in this House. What she did is wrong, and I am going to 
stay on her until this is over.

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