[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 11 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TRAVELGATE

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I serve as a member of the House Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight that has been looking into the 
Travelgate matter, the White House firings of the White House Travel 
Office. Each twist and turn of the White House Travel Office firings 
becomes more and more bizarre.
  I have a report today in the Washington Times by a gentleman, Mark 
Levin, who reveals an incredible misuse of power by the White House in 
use of the FBI, our Nation's chief law enforcement agency, that I feel 
should be investigated.
  I am calling today on our chairman to expand our investigation of 
this matter, of the misuse of the FBI, our chief law enforcement 
agency, and I also think that it is time that we look at Mr. Levin's 
call for the appointment of a special counsel, an independent counsel, 
to investigate this matter where the White House, in fact, has used 
this law enforcement agency in an inappropriate manner and now we find 
out that there is even more information to lead us to believe that, in 
fact, there was misconduct in these firings and the cover that the 
White House prepared for the public.

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