[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3161]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  ETHICALLY CHALLENGED ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, we would not possibly kill Big Bird if we 
wanted to kill Big Bird. Nobody wants to kill Big Bird. The fact is 
that Big Bird generates hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of 
revenue every single year to the great benefit of the people that 
created it, and any suggestion that Big Bird is going anywhere is 
crazy.
  We cannot go 1 week, 1 day without another new ethical allegation 
that is made against a member of the Cabinet. Today it is Henry 
Cisneros and his problem with Housing and Urban Development. Over the 
weekend there was a problem with Ron Brown and apparently Federico Pena 
had hired Mr. Brown using FAA funds to lobby on behalf of Denver back 
in the late 1980's or early 1990's.
  There is a pall, a cloud of ethical problems that hangs over this 
administration. It is certainly no secret that it is, let us call it in 
the politically correct language of the day, the most ethically 
challenged administration of the 20th century, perhaps of both 
centuries.

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