[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TIME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO COME CLEAN ON THE FBI FILE SEARCH

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that the gentlewoman 
from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] talks about the Nixon White House, 
because as far as the latest White House blunder the President's 
silence has been almost deafening. The unanswered questions keep piling 
up, and the President still has not taken responsibility. What was the 
White House doing with over 340 private citizens' FBI files? How did 
these files just happen to be of members of the former Bush and Reagan 
administration? And why is the President not taking responsibility for 
these actions?
  Mr. Speaker, once again we have a case of feigned innocence by 
higher-ups at the White House, but this is one time too many that lower 
level staffers have had to take the blame for major mixups. The excuses 
are running thin, the coverup game has gone on a little too long. It is 
time for the White House and the President to come clean about the FBI 
search. The American people demand no less.

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