[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H13812-H13813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      NOTHING COULD BE MORE CLEAR

  (Mr. LEWIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the cat is out of the bag. 
According to articles in papers across the country, Speaker Gingrich's 
personal political slush fund--GOPAC--was illegally providing funds and 
resources to Federal candidates in 1990. And lo and behold, who appears 
to have been the primary recipient of such funds, Speaker Gingrich 
himself.
  All of this has come to light in a lawsuit brought against GOPAC by 
the Federal Election Commission. Among 

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the documents filed yesterday were internal memos and minutes from 
GOPAC planning meetings. According to one, an unidentified GOPAC source 
said ``we're supplying, my guess would be a quarter of a million 
dollars in Newt support per year.'' A quarter of a million dollars in 
an election he won by just 974 votes.
  Mr. Speaker, the Ethics Committee has now been stonewalling the 
appointment of an independent counsel for more than 14 months. The 
committee must act, they must act. We need an outside counsel to 
investigate Newt Gingrich. Stop the stonewalling.

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