[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ETHICS COMMITTEE SHOULD RELEASE COLE'S REPORT

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, 7 years ago, the current Speaker of the House 
of Representatives stood on this very floor and said I think that it is 
vital that we take as a Congress our commitment to publish that report 
and to release those documents so that the country can judge whether or 
not the man who is second in line to be President, the Speaker of the 
House, should be in that position.
  Of course, that was Newt Gingrich talking about then Speaker Jim 
Wright. But Speaker Gingrich's words are as true today as they were 7 
years ago. And now we have another report, this one not by Mr. Phelan, 
but by James Cole, that cost the taxpayers of this country a half 
million dollars, and every Member of the House of Representatives 
should know today what is in that report. The people of this Nation who 
paid for that report need to know what is in that report.
  Again the words of then Member Gingrich, now Speaker Gingrich, who 
said I cannot imagine going to the country to tell them that we have 
got $1.6 million in this report, and, by the way, there is nothing in 
it. You cannot see it. We must let the American people and this 
Congress see this report.

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