[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14027-H14028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPUBLICANS WANT TO RAID CRIME TRUST FUND

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, today is an important day for law 
enforcement across America. Our Republican friends want to raid the 
crime trust fund and jerk a commitment of 100,000 police officers who 
will be on our streets, protecting our neighborhoods. It is time to 
stand up for our cops.
  And what about law enforcement in our own neighborhood, right here on 
the floor of Congress? Twice now the American people have been denied 
the right to know what the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
has been doing the last 14 months concerning these serious ethics 
charges against Speaker Gingrich.
  Finally, our Republican colleagues seem willing to permit an outside 
real prosecutor, so long as that prosecutor's hands are tied and bound 
from doing anything about the serious charges of 

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illegal GOPAC campaign contributions, about the $250,000 of Newt's 
support, as they call it, for Speaker Gingrich.
  As the nonpartisan citizens action group, Common Cause, said 
yesterday, in calling for the recusal and removal of the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct chairman, ``What is at stake is the 
integrity of the House ethics process.'' It is time to end the coverup 
and stand up for law enforcement.

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