[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ETHICS COMMITTEE MUST STOP STALLING

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, the Los Angeles Times details how House 
Speaker Newt Gingrich used six nonprofit foundations to funnel money 
for his own political profit. I quote:

       From 1984 to 1994, Gingrich and his cadre of key advisers 
     used no fewer than six nonprofit groups to extend the reach 
     of GOPAC, the partisan committee that fueled the successful 
     1994 Republican drive to gain control of the Congress. 
     Together the foundations were part of a loose network of 
     Gingrich-related enterprises dubbed Newt's world.

  This is outrageous, it is unseemly and it is illegal. It violates 
Federal tax law that prohibits exempt organizations from any, any form 
of partisan politics. Those are the issues, serious issues. The serious 
questions are, why has not the Ethics Committee pursued the ethics 
compliant filed in January 1996 that alleges the misuse of the tax-free 
foundation called the Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Society? Why has not 
the committee forwarded these allegations to Special Investigator Cole? 
Can it be that in Newt's world the laws that the average person must 
abide by do not apply?

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