[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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             INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, FISCALLY OUT OF CONTROL

  (Mr. TORRICELLI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, if it happened in any other department 
of this Government it would rock the foundations of Washington. It 
would be a scandal of enormous proportions, an agency of this 
Government spending $350 million to build four office buildings without 
the control of the Congress, without the oversight of Members of this 
institution, secretly constructing an office building larger than 
anything on Capitol Hill; indeed, one-fifth the size of the Pentagon.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the final evidence. The intelligence communities 
of this Government, the CIA in particular, is a government within a 
government. We are not controlling it, we are not monitoring it, we are 
not controlling its spending. We are not functioning in our 
constitutional responsibilities.
  Mr. Speaker, only a few weeks ago this House defeated an effort that 
the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Glickman] and I offered to make the CIA 
budget public.
  I remind my colleagues that when that vote comes up again, we are 
responsible for accountability of the intelligence agencies. Today 
Members are seeing just how out of control fiscally they are.

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