[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                      GET DEMOCRATS OFF SOAPBOXES

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, Democrat White House surrogates in the 
Congress who have been criticizing the selection of Ken Starr as the 
independent prosecutor should get off their soapboxes. Not only because 
it is so unseemly in light of all of the attempts at White House 
manipulation and influence over this investigation already, but because 
Ken Starr is precisely the kind of independent prosecutor they should 
have asked for in the first place. That he is not a buddy of Bernie 
Nussbaum's that he hasn't even the most tenuous of relationships to 
this administration, and that he did contemplate filing an amicus brief 
for Paula Jones, makes him perfectly suited for the job.
  Nobody has suggested that Mr. Starr will act unfairly. Nobody has 
attacked his reputation for probity or impartiality as a Federal judge. 
They have merely suggested that he creates an appearance of 
partisanship.
  Well, when the President and the First Lady are cleared of all the 
wrongdoing, as they have emphatically stated they will be, then this 
suggestion of partisanship will make Starr's conclusions unimpeachable. 
So pipe down, relax, and let the process take its course. And be 
careful, because all of this whining and protesting about Starr is 
going to sound an awful lot like another attempt to influence, 
manipulate, and divert to the American public.

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