[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                      LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

  (Mr. JACOBS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, wow. Fifteen hours of questioning under hot 
lights--2 o'clock in the morning.
  Oh, by the way, speaking of recusing oneself, if you were President, 
how would you like to be officially investigated by someone with no 
experience in investigation, and with prior demonstrated hostility 
toward you?
  Character assassination by unprincipled partisans is one thing, and a 
reprehensible thing at that. But using the authority of the courts to 
stack the deck, compromises the meaning of the Constitution which is 
the underpinning of our mutual covenant of ``liberty and justice for 
all.''
  Mr. Speaker, this new arrangement is not quite like the Spanish 
Inquisition about which Samuel Shellabarger wrote, ``No one was too 
innocent to be proved guilty.'' Not quite. But close.

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