[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               FBI FILES

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, in 1992, candidate Bill Clinton refused to 
sign a waiver that would allow the FBI to release requested information 
from his FBI file. The candidate's, in 1992, press secretary said and I 
quote, ``It is a personal file and he is not going to do it.''
  It just so happens that I have a staffer who works in my office whose 
name happens to be on that list of FBI files that happens to be at the 
White House. Nobody knows how. Nobody knows why. I wonder how she feels 
about her name and her file being displayed at the White House. Who saw 
it? What did they do with the information?
   Mr. Speaker, as the chaplain said, today is a new day. In 1992, Bill 
Clinton promised the most ethical administration in the history of this 
country, the most ethical. Today is a new day. I think it is time for 
the President and the White House to work fully with the FBI and to 
work openly and fully with this Congress to determine who knew what, 
when they knew it and what they are going to do to correct the problem.

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