[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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                       KENNETH STARR CONTROVERSY

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, why is a man who has been a highly regarded 
Federal judge allowing a controversy about appearances to escalate? 
Judge Kenneth Starr knows better.
  It is hard to believe that if Starr had been the judge charged with 
choosing the Whitewater prosecutor, that Starr would have chosen Starr. 
Recent association with an active lawsuit against the President, recent 
consideration of running for the Senate, recent involvement in active 
political campaigns, what does it take Judge Starr to make a case for 
disqualification based on appearances?
  Whatever it takes, surely the coup de grace was the association of 
Judge David Sentelle with partisan enemies of the President just before 
he made the Starr appointment.
  The defenders of Judge Starr have missed the point. His fine 
reputation is not at issue. What is missing is the threshold 
qualification for this appointment: Not impartiality, but the 
appearance of impartiality. Judge Kenneth Starr would have known what 
to do. So does Kenneth Starr, Esquire.

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