[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6851-H6852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 GOPAC

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Madam Speaker, who ran GOPAC from 1984 to 1994? We all 
know that it was our autocratic Speaker, Newt Gingrich, while as a 
Member of this body ran this very political Republican organization. 
Where did he get his money? Well, he got a lot of it from tax-exempt 
organizations, six of them, which he set up, which he ran. They got 
donations from the public to go to help children, to help college 
courses, to help learning disabled, and what did he use it for? He used 
it to elect the Republicans. That is what the Speaker did. It is pure 
fraud. And what is being done about it? Nothing.
  The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has permitted the 
special counsel to look into two of those, but not the other four. Why 
not? It is a coverup, folks. They are taking care of the Speaker. They 
do not want the American public to know that the Speaker used tax-
exempt organizations, defrauded the people who sent the money down 
there. They thought it

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was going for kids. What did it go to? It went to elect Republicans.

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