[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 178 (Friday, November 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            THE MOST INVESTIGATED ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, just when we thought that the poor judgment or 
the ethical standards of the Clinton administration could not get any 
worse, along comes the revelation yesterday that Energy Secretary Hazel 
O'Leary paid $43,000 in taxpayers' money to compile what amounts to an 
enemies list. For that, the Secretary should resign immediately.
  Secretary O'Leary joins a long list of other Clinton administration 
figures who have helped make this probably the most investigated 
administration in history: Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell, 
Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy, 
Secretary of HUD, Henry Cisneros, Treasury official Jean Hansen, White 
House lawyers William Kennedy and Bernie Nussbaum and resident egghead 
Ira Magaziner, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Roger Altman, not 
to mention White Whitewater. And who can forget poor Josh Steiner, the 
former Treasury official who testifed that he lied to his own diary. 
Perhaps most important and embarrassing is the unprecedented legal 
defense fund for a sitting President.
  Yet this same administration has the nerve to lecture us about 
balancing the budget.

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