[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 84 (Monday, June 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              IT IS TIME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO COME CLEAN

  (Mr. POMBO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POMBO. Mr. Speaker, apparently the White House is at it again. 
This time they raided the confidential FBI files of Republican 
officials, including former Secretary of State James Baker.
  Let me just read from the AP story about this incident:

       But among the unanswered questions were, who at the White 
     House knew the files has been gathered and why they were kept 
     at the White House rather than returned to the FBI? The 
     files, 341 of them, almost all of them former employees of 
     Republican administrations, were stored in the White House 
     security office's vault.

  Mr. Speaker, I guess we can all breathe a little easier knowing that 
not every Republican was investigated. It was only 341 of them.
  The White House assures us that this was only a small, innocent 
bureaucratic mistake. I believe that. I also believe in the Easter 
Bunny, and that the world is flat. Mr. Speaker, it is time for the 
White House to come clean.

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