[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 APPOINTMENT OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL NEEDED

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the clouds of scandal once 
again are gathering above the House of Representatives. The Wall Street 
Journal has been running daily accounts of the special favors that the 
contributors of GOPAC and the contributors to the Progress and Freedom 
Foundation that are controlled by the Speaker have sought and received.
  According to the Wall Street Journal, 10 percent of the contributors 
to the Progress and Freedom Foundation are makers of drugs and medical 
devices, whom we now learn are the same people who have sought special 
legislation and are now seeking to gut the Food and Drug 
Administration. What we as Members of the House are witnessing is very 
strong suggestion that the House of Representatives is somehow for 
sale.
  This cannot be allowed to stand. We as Members deserve better, and 
the people of this Nation deserve better. It is imperative that the 
House Committee on Ethics and its chair, the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut, Nancy Johnson, move to appoint outside counsel. Given the 
ramifications of these stories and the fact that GOPAC and the Progress 
and Freedom Foundation are controlled by the Speaker, the committee has 
no other choice. It owes it to the people of this Nation to do so, and 
I urge my colleagues to call upon the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
[Mrs. Johnson] to appoint outside counsel.

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