[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 34 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2070]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


THE SPEAKER'S COLLEGE CLASS, SUBSIDIZED BY AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, SAID TO 
                         BE EXTREMELY PARTISAN

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, just how nonpartisan is Newt Gingrich's 
college class?
  The Speaker claims it is nonpartisan. He sold it to the Ethics 
Committee as a nonpartisan class.
  The sole reason that donors get tax exemptions is because it is 
supposedly nonpartisan.
  Yet, in the past 2 days, we have received new evidence that this 
class was as partisan as partisan gets.
  The dean of the college who once helped teach the class now says that 
political and academic resources were commingled.
  A Ph.D. student who helped set up the class said on Sunday: ``the 
class was intended to be partisan and very political.''
  Mr. Speaker, this class, which promotes an intensely partisan, 
political agenda of the Speaker, is being subsidized by the American 
taxpayers.
  And its fund were commingled with the Speaker's own political action 
committee, GOPAC.
  It is time for the Speaker to come clean with the American people.
  It is time for him to release the list of past GOPAC donors.
  And it is time that we appoint a professional, nonpartisan, outside 
counsel to investigate this whole mess.

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