[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WHITE HOUSE ``SO WHAT'' RESPONSE

  (Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, it was reported over the weekend 
that the Clinton administration had used the FBI to obtain the 
confidential records of former Reagan and Bush administrations 
employees. The White House passed this off as a mere bureaucratic 
mistake; an oversight not to be repeated; really, just a small matter 
that is not worthy of a serious examination.
  Mr. Speaker, I long ago stopped trying to figure out the Clinton 
administration. Their response to any accusation of improper or illegal 
activity is always the same: So what.
  It goes something like this; Whitewater, so what. Troopergate, so 
what. Cattle futures, so what. Travelgate, so what. Cabinet members 
resigning in disgrace, so what. Twenty-two White House officials with 
legal defense funds, so what. Paula Jones, so what.
  Mr. Speaker, the White House's ``so what'' response to the improper 
or illegal use of the FBI only confirms that they are hiding something 
from the American people.

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