[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              APPOINT OUTSIDE COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE GOPAC

  (Ms. ESHOO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, according to the Los Angeles Times a 
Wisconsin couple gave $700,000 to GOPAC between 1985 and 1993. That is 
a lot of money.
  The cornerstone of Federal election law is disclosure, full 
disclosure. Within the past 5 years, GOPAC has raised more than $7 
million. The American people should know where this money came from, 
did these donors get anything in return, and are there any conflicts of 
interest?
  Mr. Speaker, these are important questions, but we cannot get answers 
because GOPAC refuses to provide a list of its past contributors and 
how much they contributed. What we know is that many of GOPAC's current 
donors have issues pending before the Congress. In light of these 
potential conflicts of interest, an outside counsel should be appointed 
to investigate these matters.
  The time has come for the House of Representatives, especially the 
new majority, to live up to their own rhetoric and call for an outside 
counsel to investigate where GOPAC's money has come from and how it has 
been used. The American people deserve to know.

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