[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE SPEAKER TARGETED IN POLITICAL INVESTIGATION, SAYS THE MIAMI HERALD

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I have an article here that appeared in the 
Miami Herald on February 21 that says they will find some dirt on 
Gingrich, and one of our colleagues is quoted as saying that people 
have been assigned by House Democrats to ``investigate Gingrich on a 
daily basis,'' and ``we are going to stay on his back.''
  I really doubt if the American people sent our colleagues here to try 
and downgrade or to try and develop some sort of a list of how we can 
do in a particular Member of this House. I think the American people 
sent us here to do the people's business and to pass legislation and 
work together.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to 
put aside partisan politics, to put aside any feelings of trying to do 
somebody in. Let us work together and do the people's business that we 
were sent here to do.

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