[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H184-H185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          LINGERING QUESTIONS

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, there are lingering questions still 
unanswered in the controversy over the fired House historian.
  First, what did Speaker Gingrich know about her extreme views and 
when did he know it? The Speaker says he did not know Ms. Jeffrey once 
rejected a course on the Holocaust because it failed to present the 
Nazi point of view. Yet, Ms. Jeffrey's top aide claims he knew all 
along.
  Second, Ms. Jeffrey has been outspoken on GOPAC. She says that GOPAC 
was founded as, and I quote, ``a way of getting around campaign finance 
disclosure laws.'' And she has called for repeal of those very laws.
  I think the American people have a right to know: Do the Republicans 
agree? Do they agree that GOPAC was founded as a way of ducking 
campaign finance disclosure? Do they agree that 
[[Page H185]] we need to bring more secrecy in the political process?
  Mr. Speaker, this is a question of credibility. The Republicans talk 
a lot about rebuilding trust with the American people. If they really 
mean it, they should come clean and reveal the contributors and their 
expenses on GOPAC.
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