[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6852-H6853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         APPROVE THE PRIVILEGED RESOLUTION AND STOP THE COVERUP

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, I would say to the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Armey], the only apology that is due in this House is one from him 
for obstructing the investigation which ought to be occurring; an 
apology that is due to the American people.
  I think one of the world's most majestic monuments is that which sits 
in this city honoring Abraham Lincoln. But apparently not content with 
that, Newt Gingrich and his crowd decided they would erect a second 
monument to Lincoln. They called it the Abraham Lincoln Opportunity 
Foundation. It was supposedly created to help poor teenagers, but it 
was converted into a vehicle to recruit more Gingrichites for Congress.
  Political donors to this partisan organization were advised they 
could

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take a tax deduction just as if they were giving to their church or 
soup kitchen, even though what they were doing was supporting 
Gingrich's GOPAC farm team.
  In the name of Lincoln, our tax laws were perverted and our democracy 
was polluted. It is time for this to end. It is time to explore these 
misdeeds. Approve the privileged resolution today and get to the bottom 
of this and stop the coverup.

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