[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IMPROPER USE OF COMMITTEE STAFF

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, today I want to alert the House to a call I 
have made, along with eight of my fellow freshmen Democrats this 
morning, to ask the Speaker, we have asked Speaker Gingrich to rescind 
and repudiate a request that was made in the name of the office of the 
House majority leader to all the subcommittees in this House. That 
request was a partisan effort to use House staff improperly.
  The request, very simply, was sent to all House committee staffs 
asking them to look for specific material that could be used to attack 
organized labor or the Clinton administration. In an unprecedented 
institutionalized effort to use House staff to do the bidding of the 
leader's office, the Republican leadership has shown again that they 
are not about putting the House in order, they are not about using the 
House for what it is intended, the furtherance of the people's 
business. It was, in fact, waste, fraud, and abuse on the highest 
level.

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