[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H10355-H10364]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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SCANDALS IN CLINTON ADMINISTRATION
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cooley). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of May 12, 1995, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, before I begin my special order, which is on
the multiple and expanding scandals of this administration, I yield to
the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon], my wing man who sits in
the senior position to my left on the Committee on National Security,
for a few more thoughts upon the constitutional crisis we are working
our way through this very day, where Mr. Clinton has frozen out 100
elected Senators and 434, with Bill Emerson in heaven, elected
Representatives. I yield to the distinguished gentleman from
Pennsylvania.
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. I thank my friend and colleague for
yielding. I want to start off by just making one statement at the
beginning here because, Mr. Speaker, while we cannot directly speak to
those people who may be watching this at home, I can speak to you, Mr.
Speaker. I can repeat what is, in fact, the case.
As you know, I objected from a parliamentary standpoint to our
colleagues who for the past hour or so have been raising questions
about the ethics case of Speaker Gingrich. The reason I raise those, as
you pointed out, Mr. Speaker, is we are not allowed to discuss an open
ethics case in this body until it is concluded.
The problem is that they can keep speaking. I have to sit here and
every minute raise the objection again, and you would warn them, and
that would just go back and forth all night. So we just sit down and
let them speak.
But I just want, Mr. Speaker, to remind everyone, including our
colleagues, that we could have sat here and we could have discussed the
ethics case against the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bonior], which to
my understanding is still pending before the Ethics Committee, or
perhaps to my understanding there was an ethics case, maybe it has been
resolved, against the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt]. But we
did not choose to do that because we play by the rules and we know
that, in fact, as a Member of this institution, any matter currently
pending before the Ethics Committee is not to be discussed because the
Ethics Committee is totally bipartisan, equal numbers of Democrats
and Republicans, and until it is ultimately resolved and brought to a
recommendation of this body, we are not supposed to respond.
So we could have done the same thing. We could have got up here and
laid out all the facts on the Bonior allegations and all the facts
about the Gephardt allegations, but we did not choose to do that. We
choose to just let them vent their frustrations, if you will, because
of their concern of Speaker Gingrich's impact on revolutionizing this
country.
So if, Mr. Speaker, there are those who think that we were not
prepared to respond, that is why, because we, in fact, are abiding by
the rules of theHouse. Just to further respond and thank my good friend
and colleague who has been a leader in this body, I want to commend him
for today passing one of the most historic and most important bills
that this institution will pass in this session, and that is how POW
Accountability Act, which the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan]
has worked on diligently for how many years?
Mr. DORNAN. Obviously, I thank the gentleman for bringing it up.
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. How many years have you worked on this
issue?
Mr. DORNAN. I started, believe it or not, when I was 19 years old,
when I joined the Air Force. And while I was waiting to go to pilot
training in July 1953, I had just turned 20 by then, I joined when I
was 19 in October 1952. I served basic, waiting at Williams Air Force
Base to go. And an Army psychiatrist who had interviewed all the men
coming back from Korea, the first waves who had been brainwashed,
tortured is the proper word, and broken, and given confessions, 21 were
still sitting in China, young high school dropout enlisted kids. One
committed suicide. All 20 saw the error of their ways, came home, our
country forgave them.
But I started then. But legislatively I have spent 31 years, since my
best friend David Hurdlica was shot down. His wife Carol testified
yesterday, my wife's best friend. We were neighbors, bridge partners. I
checked him out in the F-100 HUN, the Super Sabre. For 31 years my
interest has been intense.
If I may say so, I won the Mendel Rivers award by testifying in that
committee room today. I thought about it and thought, well, do not
mention it. That was the summer of 1971. Pete Peterson, who was sitting
in the room, was still in prison, and I was testifying, do not end
Vietnam the way we ended Korea. And we did. More controversy, more
conspiracy theories, more men left behind, certainly in Laos for sure.
And as I said today in our Committee on National Security room, with
all those battle streamers on our 4 services' flags, including the
Coast Guard, our 5 services' flags, we left hundreds behind in Korea,
so I thank the gentleman. It was H.R. 4000.
Now comes the tricky part. That is, we have 2 weeks, maybe 3 if we do
not get out on Friday the 27th, to find a vehicle, an appropriations
continuing resolution, which was used as a vehicle to destroy my proper
and fair HIV public law, signed the same day as all this POW-MIA
protective laws. Clinton signed it February 10.
Why we are stripping it out of law, because of one friend of ours who
wants to put all of Vietnam behind us, normalize relations, trade,
most-favored-nation status, forget the wounds of war, everybody is full
of baloney, there are no traces of people left behind, when this good
friend knows absolutely zilch about Laos or Cambodia and did not have
the full picture on Vietnam.
A hero, an 8-victory jet ace, severely tortured, Robbie Reisner, came
home with the same opinions: We are all home. On the tap code we
learned about everybody here. And he reversed himself and said, ``I
don't know anything about Laos and Cambodia,'' and now I have no proof
that there was not a second prison system, small, hidden, underground,
shipping people to the Soviet Union as they shipped people from Korea
to the Soviet Union, for sure.
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Your bill today, if I am not mistaken,
passed with a unanimous vote. As you very eloquently put it, you were
the author and the prime mover of this, but you had strong support from
your ranking member, Owen Pickett, and you also did your legislation in
total consult with, as you said, one of our most respected former
POW's, Pete Peterson.
Mr. DORNAN. And with Sam Johnson.
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. And with Sam Johnson from this body,
another POW. And you are to be commended for that because you have
righted a terrible wrong in letting those families know that we are
going to continue to persevere to force a full accounting and to force
a full assessment and to have a process in place to make sure that what
happened in Korea and what happened in Vietnam never happens again in
this country. I commend you for that action. I wanted to mention that
today. I know that is not the subject of your special order but so that
all of those troops and all of those families across the country know
that it was Chairman Bob Dornan who has been diligent and tireless in
this effort to make sure that they are not forgotten.
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Just before I let you complete you special order on what I think is
an outrageous topic but one that needs to be aired, I just want to say
that I hope you will join me in requesting answers from this
administration on what our plans are the in Middle East, what our game
plan is, what our strategy is. Are we, in fact, letting Saddam suck us
into a tar pit where we are going to lose additional lives, where we
are not going to have a clear way to get out? Why are we not getting
the kind of support from our allies? Why is the President not
consulting with the leadership of this body, both Republicans and
Democrats, because it is not an urgent situation. He could have called
them today. He could have come back from his campaigning. We are
talking about kids' lives. Kids' lives are more important than
campaigning out in California. If he is going to deploy them, he has a
responsibility to let the intelligence leadership know, the leadership
from both parties' standpoint, and the various committees, because we
are the ones who have to answer when we go back home to our
constituents, who have kids in the service, what is going on. I can
tell you, I am frustrated. I go home, last weekend, I do not know what
is happening, as a senior member of the security committee, I have no
idea what is going on with this President and that is outrageous.
I thank my colleague and friend for yielding. I wish him well in his
deliberations this evening as he does a service for this country with
his report.
Mr. DORNAN. Stay in the well just one more second in this colloquy.
Let us make a pact now as colleagues, because you are the leader on
defending the American homeland from one or several or any number of
missile attacks, nonpareil, as the French would say, without parallel,
on both sides of the aisle, you are the leader. Let us make a pact that
if, God willing and the wisdom of the voters sustaining us in our
chairmanships on the election, which is 56 days away tomorrow, if we
come back, whether it is President Dole--please, Lord--or President
Clinton, that we will do a special order, if the first ceremonial day
is too much family and friends or if Mr. Newt, our still Speaker and
wants a day of action, on the next day, we will do back-to-back special
orders. One on the 105th Congress' responsibility to not only have
theater missile defense for our men and women in the field and our
allies but that we will get to the job of defending the homeland of
this country, even the big cities on the coasts, like Los Angeles and
New York City where I was born. I will help you with that.
Then you help me with a special order. We will crank in our
professor, SteveHorn, get a moderate Republican voice, and start to
talk about Lou Fisher, the professor and scholar, senior scholar at the
Library of Congress, about the constitutional authority, the
responsibility of this House, to decide when American men and women go
and die in the alleys of Mogadishu, Somalia; or Haiti or Bosnia or in
the skies over Iraq. God forbid if they get their hands on some female
fighter pilot in this conflict. We have got to resolve that, because
even if it is President Dole, although Bob did not want troops to go
into Bosnia, he said to me, backed up by our colleague Vin Webber, who
I served 10 great years with here, that Clinton had the right to put
them in there without the authority of Congress, a Desert Storm type
debate which I am going to open with because all the people objecting
to what you were saying today all voted against, some of them voted
against the sanctions, at least my pal Eliot Engel voted for the
sanctions, all the rest voted against the sanctions, let alone taking
hostile, aggressive, offensive combat action. We are going to have to
discuss these authorities, because Senator Dole, then the leader, said,
``Well, I don't want them there in Bosnia but he's got the right to
send them there.''
Thomas Jefferson, our third President, the one Kennedy said that when
he had about 15 Nobel, Pulitzer Prize winners, ``This is the most
intellect in the WhiteHouse except for when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone.'' If Jefferson was that smart, we should listen to him when he
said, I have no authority as President, talking about Barbary pirates,
it is in the MarineHymn, shores of Tripoli, I have no authority as
President under the Constitution to do anything except respond to
direct attack defensively, is what he meant, I cannot send offensive
action anywhere unless Congress orders me to. And we ordered his
predecessor Adams, we ordered him, we ordered his successor James
Madison, Monroe, 10 times this House said, ``go get them,'' referring
to the pirates and brigands and cutthroats interrupting commerce in the
Mediterranean.
Now we have had a 6th Fleet there since World War II and we have got
a 7th Fleet in the Pacific and it is still this Congress and you and I
as chairmen, you as chairman of Readiness and Defense, Duncan Hunter of
Acquisition/Procurement, Herb Bateman of Virginia on Readiness, Hefley
to my right on Installations and me on Military Personnel, how we pay
them, how we clothe them, how we feed them, the quality of life, the
recruitment problem, the retention, the hollowing out problem, all of
Floyd Spence, our great chairman, his five marshals--you can think of
us as sphere marshals or western marshals--we are his gunsels in this
House and likewise five marshals under Strom Thurmond in the Senate to
decide when our men and women--our kids as you call them--go into
combat. So we will do those 2-hour special orders and we will set the
tone and resolve in the 105th Congress no matter which one of the
Presidents prevail, Lord knows, it may be President Perot with his
excellent Vice Presidential choice, we will make that vow to do that
the first or second day we are sworn in.
Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. I accept the gentleman's challenge. I
will be happy to do those special orders with him. As the gentleman has
pointed out, I hope it is under a Dole administration but we will do it
under any administration, God willing, we come back. One quick final
statement, Mr. Dornan, and I know you will agree with me. Why do we
raise this issue as we are about to adjourn today for the weekend, and
why would the Democrats characterize this as politics? It is not
politics. In fact, what is our greatest concern, in the 4 years that I
have served here under a Clinton administration, I think back to that
outrageous moment when we were called down to the basement of this
building for a briefing--and the gentleman was there--by Warren
Christopher and Les Aspin, giving us a summary of what was occurring in
Somalia. And there were a number of Senators, I think there were over
300 of us all total in this one room and they said to us, asking us a
question. ``What do we do next?'' They had no clear policy. And we had
just lost 19 brave young Americans. When we finally got to the answers
of why we lost those 19 brave young Americans, we were told that the
commanding officer in Somalia had requested additional backup about a
month before for his troops. He said he could not handle the situation.
He was denied that request. And when Les Aspin was asked why he was
denied that request, his answer was that he though there was not the
appropriate political climate in this city to support the backup
support for those troops.
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Mr. Speaker, that is the only time in the 10 years I have been here
that I have ever heard that we imposed a political decision on how to
support and deploy American troops. It may have happened before I got
here, whether it was Vietnam or Lebanon ow whatever, but it is the only
time in the 10 years that I have been here that a political decision
dealt with by this administration caused indirectly or directly the
loss of 19 young American lives.
Mr. Speaker, we could not even go into Mogadishu and pull those
bodies out when they were being massacred. The reason why we are
raising this issue today is we are not going to let this President
repeat what happened in Somalia. We are going to demand that this
Congress play its rightful role under the Constitution, under the War
Powers Act, in having consultations on what our plans are, to make sure
we are giving adequate backup.
If this President thinks we should take some action, maybe it is to
go in and get Saddam. Then he needs to sell that plan to the American
people and the Congress, and not allow this to go day by day, step by
step, into a bigger
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and bigger conflict, and then all of a sudden next week we are into a
wholesale war and the Members of Congress all of a sudden stand up and
say, hey, what happened here. How did we get in this mess.
We are saying up front now we are putting the administration on
notice that we want to know the justification under the U.N.
resolutions. We want to know we were in compliance with the War Powers
Act. We want to know what the ultimate game plan here is. Is it just a
short-sighted, 1-day plan? Or in fact is there a long-term scheme to go
in and do something else besides enforce the U.N. resolutions that were
passed when President Bush was in office?
I thank my colleague and friend for yielding and wish him well in his
special order.
Mr. DORNAN. I thank the very, very distinguished gentleman from the
great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
What Mr. Weldon brought up that happened in the national security
room today, the reason we got a unanimous vote and six Democratic
Members on the spot joined my bill, H.R. 4000, as cosponsors, was I
opened by reading a letter, a speech, that I have been trying to get my
hands on for years that Henry Cabot Lodge, then the permanent U.S.
representative with ambassadorial title to the United Nations,
delivered in New York on December 4, 1954. I had just had my last
flight in a F-80 or T-33 jet in pilot training, then ahead of time had
to wait a long, agonizing week's period to get my wings on February 7.
That was a Republican House then, Republican Senate. It was
Eisenhower's second year. We had just lost theHouse in an election,
just less than a month before. Henry Cabot Lodge got up and said these
words. I think this is why it carried. Duncan Hunter asked for a
recorded vote anyway, and I think this is why it carried unanimously.
To keep until public law everything I fought for for 20 years here, in
generalities, and specifically for the last 3 years, dotting the law,
signed by Clinton February 10 of this year, 1996. And it was stripped
out at 11:52 at night without a phone call to me to join the conference
and fight for it.
Here is what Ambassador Lodge said to the United Nations: Mr.
President, referring to whoever was in the chair at the United Nations
Building at the East River, it is an immemorial principle of human
decency that a family looks after its own members. A nation must also
look after its own if it is to continue to be a nation. And the United
Nations must show an equal interest in these men who by their personal
effort sought to repel an aggression which this United Nations itself
was opposing.
We did 98 percent of the fighting. You know that because you were on
active duty then, Mr. Speaker, pro tempore.
The thing that sustains the man in uniform, and now we would have to
say woman in uniform, when he is so far from home, is the thought that
he is being supported by those for whom he is fighting. We in the
United Nations, of course by extension, America, cannot let these men
down. They are United Nations men. They were sent to Korea in response
to a request from the United Nations. Well, Harry Truman may have
gotten ahead of the proposition there, but our troops were being
overrun, the Tropic Lightning Division out of Hawaii and the 24th
Division, rather, were being overrun, hundreds of men being taken
prisoner in June and July of 1950.
I had just graduated from high school. I could not believe what I was
reading and seeing on the news in that we had just won the Second World
War 5 short years before against Tojo and Mussolini and Adolph Hitler
and Stalin. We had found out they kept killing and held back United
States prisoners, those with the misfortune to have a Ukrainian,
Russian, or any type of Slavic or Polish last name.
Henry Cabot Lodge continues,
For these reasons, the United States believes that the
proposed item before the UN agenda, placed on the agenda,
that the United Nations should act promptly and with
determination to bring about the release of the 11 airmen and
all other captured military personnel of the United Nations
command who are still detained.
We got back in June 1955 an F-84 Thunderjet fighter and 3 F-86 Saber
Jet pilots, and 11 of the 13 crew-members of Jack Arnold's B-29 shot
down over North Korea, dropping leaflets, but the whole crew was taken
around the Korean Gulf and taken to China, all the way to Beijing. They
kept the two radio men and executed them, or they are rotting as men in
their late sixties and seventies today in China, they kept back the two
radar men who could pinpoint they were over North Korea, not invading
China, which had invaded North Korea to support the Communist cause
that they had instigated in that whole terrible war, that caused
millions of Koreans to die. They held back 40,000 ROK forces, Republic
of Korea forces, and 10,000 may be alive today still in North Korea.
Mr. Lodge says the Soviet representative, Jacob A. Mallek, by the
way, talks about confessions which had been obtained from American
personnel, and that, let me say, is no new story here. Last year we
demonstrated the way in which false confessions were extracted from
U.N. military personnel, what can only be described as torture.
I skip forward.
We produced last year films showing some of the young Americans
making these confessions from the Communist film that they took, and
then showing the same man getting off the boat in San Francisco saying
he had been tortured into making these so-called confessions.
He uses the term ``brainwashing,'' which was a fairly new term then.
Then he goes on with letters I have gotten hold of, to write on
December 7 to the Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold. Since it took me
so long to get these records, and so that other people will not have
that same problem, I will placeHenry Cabot Lodge's remarks and letters,
starting from these U.N. documents, in today's Record, on the 12th of
September, 1996.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I am entering that period that 4 years ago started
a series of discussions by me on theHouse floor, that then Governor and
candidate Bill Clinton was not being candid with the American people on
all the scandals that were swirling around him, scandals of a personal
character nature, scandals which have come to be called Whitewater,
that was broken way back in March 8, 1992, by no less a journal than
America's wealthiest paper, the New York Times, and all of the other
financial chicanery in a one-party city, putting a cloud over a whole
great State that is as good as any other State. But Little Rock was a
cesspool of intrigue because of one party rule ever since the tragic
War Between the States, the Civil War.
I was joined on the second or third night by Duncan Hunter, and then
the next night by 7-year POW combat air combat veteran of both Korea
and Vietnam, Sam Johnson, who spent as long in solitary confinement in
his 7-year captivity in Hanoi, spent half of that, longer than World
War II's total course for the United States of America, he spent in
solitary confinement for being what they called ``uneducable,'' a hard
head, a resistor, what I call being a patriot, living up to the code of
conduct.
Then we were joined by the only aerial ace from World War I, there
were no aces before World War I, or World War II or Korea, the only ace
to ever serve in this House or the other Chamber, Duke Cunningham.
After awhile I referred to us as Tiger Flight, using Sam Johnson's
call sign in Vietnam, which amazingly he also used in Korea, Tiger
Flight. Tiger Flight went right down to the wire into October, trying
to get at the truth about Mr. Clinton's political career.
Since then, the news media is always intrigued with this, Secret
Service agents have told me that they have been in the Roosevelt Room
when my name has come up. My pal that I served with here for years,
Norm Panetta, has gotten a little rough in his language, and the
President goes into one of his volcanic eruptions, Mr. Clinton does,
when he hears my name.
I had a newspaper guy from the Orange County Register call and ask me
to give him the names of the Secret Service agents. One stopped me at a
church in Virginia and one stopped me at a church in the DC area, to
ask for an autographed picture no less. No, I am not going to give the
names. Then they called the Secret Service and said, ``Which of your
agents have been talking to Congressman Bob Dornan saying unkind things
about Mr. Clinton?''
Where do we get these reporters? I mean, is this child's play or
what? I am
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ready to polygraph, but they will have to torture and brainwash me to
have me end the careers of Secret Service people. I mean, it is all in
this book, Unlimited Access.
The President is protected to some extent, Mr. Clinton, by rule 18.
Just in the last year and 10 months I was against including my friend
Al Gore or Mr. Clinton in on rule 18. But Hillary Clinton is not
protected.
In here, it has her using the F word. This is Unlimited Access by
Gary Aldrich. Since I last brought up this book on the floor, I spent
some time with him in San Diego, and he is an honorable quarter century
retired FBI agent.
She tells the Secret Service, ``Stay the F away from me.''
``Ma'am, we can't protect you from this distance.''
``I don't give a blank what you do. Get your blank-ing self out of my
sight and get the blank over her.''
This is a man who passed all the security checks of the Nation, that
Mr. Clinton could not pass, because of what Mr. Clinton did at Oxford,
in a foreign country, his resisting the draft, avoiding the draft, and
then dodging the draft with an induction date notice July 28, 1969, he
never could get a security clearance unless he got elected to theHouse
or the Senate or the presidency. That is the only way he could ever get
a top secret clearance.
announcement by the speaker pro tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cooley of Oregon). The Chair would
remind all Members that it is not in order to refer to the President in
personal offensive terms.
Mr. DORNAN. Would the Chair tell me if it is the words ``draft
dodger'' that the Parliamentarian objects to? I thought we worked that
out. ``Dodging the draft'' are simple English language words.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman should refrain from using
pejorative labels.
Mr. DORNAN. Right. ``Draft dodger'' is certainly a pejorative label.
If I moved it around and used gerunds and verbs and said ``dodging the
draft,'' that is what he did.
I went to the Cambridge cemetery at Cambridge, England, and looked up
the grave just a few days ago, to be exact, September 1, to look at the
grave of Bob Holmes, the younger brother of Col. EugeneHolmes, the man
who was used so shamefully to enlist Clinton in the ROTC as a student
about to enter law school, 1 year of graduate school, ditching class at
Oxford, 1 year out of Arkansas with a degree from Georgetown, he was
put back into an ROTC class with undergraduate college students, a
brand new program which he used to have the draft induction date of
July 29, 1969, and this is history, Mr. Speaker, crushed, suppressed,
reversed; the only time I have ever heard of that in the history of my
life, unless it was a hard football injury, like a broken leg or neck
injury, or a car crash that was traumatic, and even then if you can
recover from your injuries and pass a minimal buck private physical to
enter the army, your induction date is merely postponed for a while.
Never have I heard one politically suppressed by a Senator, Senator
Fulbright, by a Governor, Winthrop Rockefeller, by the head of the
draft board, being leaned on by Buick dealers related to Mr. Clinton.
It is a scandal. And that, plus England, would have prevented him from
ever getting a top secret clearance.
But henceforth in this special order I will refer to him as the
``unmentioned one.'' No, that is too cute. I will just talk about the
Clintons as a team and as an administration. I will use the euphemistic
term, ``the administration.''
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Now, here is a chart. Yes, it is a political chart, and it has on
here someone who I will not talk about, with a wife at his side, but
here are the names of people associated--how is that camera 5 doing up
there? I will turn this way.
It says Whitewater's Most Wanted List. I will leave out two people
and start up here. David Hale, key witness on his to jail. Jim Guy
Tucker, convicted. Jim McDougal, convicted, and both of them are
talking, what unkind people would say, singing to the prosecution.
Susan Thomases, the enforcer.
Vince Foster, deceased, still being discussed some of the mystery
surrounding whether or not his body was moved, if not deeper fears.
Webster Hubbell, convicted, in prison.
Susan McDougal, in ankle chains and handcuffs, waddling off to prison
as though she is a victim. All she had to do was tell the truth, and
the grand jury that is empowered in Little Rock is there for over a
year, and that is how long she is going to sit in prison and stop
pretending to be a victim because if she wanted to say I know nothing
and everybody you are questioning me about is innocent that is my
belief and they were not involved, all she has to do is say that. But
if she is afraid of perjuring herself to say that, then she does have
information that the good citizens of Arkansas through their grand jury
are allowed to hear the truth.
Neil Eggleston, bagman. William Kennedy III, resigned in disgrace.
Bruce Lindsey, they claim here he is another bagman. Maggie Williams,
they claim she is a perjurer, but she sure had total amnesia without
brainwashing of all her memory. Bernie Nussbaum, resigned in disgrace.
David Watkins, fired and now I find out--I cannot get hold of
everything--that in his memo that the gentleman from California,
Christopher Cox and Dana Rohrabacher, discussed last night, which I am
going to get to, Mr. Speaker, that David Watkins was brought up on
sexual harassment charges as the chief administrator of the campaign of
Bill Clinton in the war room at the old newspaper headquarters near the
Excelsior Hotel in downtown Little Rock and that the campaign paid
$37,000 of taxpayer matching funds to suppress and seal confidentially
this woman working for the campaign that charged him with sexual
harassment, and they listed it as a consulting fee to this woman,
actually used another woman as a go-between, beard, and the FEC audit
caught it. Finally they justified their huge salaries over there, and
they wanted him to repay all of that and to have the campaign actually
pay back in 1994, 2 years after the campaign ended, $3 to $4 million.
And of course, and Americans should know this, Mr. Speaker, since the
FEC is designed for deadlock, six people, 3 to 3, and they vote along
political lines, they deadlocked at 3 to 3, no repayment by the Clinton
campaign of $4 million. But it was so outrageous, some of these
changes, that the three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission
settled at about a million that they did pay back. Easy to raise money
when you are an incumbent President with all that power.
That was David Watkins, he of golfing fame. He would not resign in
disgrace; he was fired in disgrace. Chris Wade, a father-in-law of Web
Hubbell, convicted. Mark Fabiani, they designate him as attack puppy.
Harold Ickes, consiglieer, good name made famous by Hollywood. Lloyd
Cutler, a good man deluded and left with the broken heart, saying that
he really thinks the Government has broken down.
Jack Quinn, a fixer. Louis Freeh, whom I praised on this House floor,
they are not so kind to him. Craig Livingstone, well they only have
``heavy'' here but it is getting a lot worse than that. Patsy
Thomasson, drug dealer's aide, head of administration at the WhiteHouse
but was Miss Fix-It, while Dan Lasater was in prison for cocaine, the
man who had gotten cocaine for the President's brother. He is the next
one up. David Lasater, drug dealer pardoned by Clinton, sent to a
halfway house, did not serve any of his serious Federal time.
Arthur Coia, it just says ``wise guy.'' Seth Ward also named
disgrace. Beverly Bassett Schaffer, a fixer. Then it mentions a
Senator. I will respect House rules and skip over him. Just said
``stonewall'' anyway. Then it has a couple of wanted. Then it has Tony
Marseca today another fixer. Jim Blair, he of the cattle futures fame.
Borrowed $1,000, rising to $100,000 in days and then cut off once the
payback had taken place.
Richard Ben-Veniste, boy, it hits him hard. David Kendall, another
fixer. Harry Thomason, the player who is still the impresario arranging
some of the--we did it too, the extended infomercials that both parties
pulled off in the month of August.
L. Jean Lewis, vindicated. That is the one good person on here. Ron
Brown, still seven investigations going on with the deceased Ron Brown.
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Cisneros, Espy, Betsey Wright, the bimbo fixer. That is her own title,
bimbo fixer. She is sort of on the out.
Carolyn Huber, a decent woman who told the truth, how documents
mysteriously appeared on coffee tables at the family level of the
WhiteHouse. Mack McLarty, demoted. They needed a slicker and younger
guy in there. George Stephanopoulos, attack puppy who came to the
Republican Convention. The press said are you going to the Democratic
Convention. I said I do not rain on their parade because Dodd and
Stephanopoulos, showed up at ours to try to spin things.
Roger Altman, resigned in disgrace. Josh Steiner, who denied his own
diary and left in disgrace. Jean Hanson, resigned in disgrace. Don
Tyson, well, he has changed sides now. He is for Bob Dole. The chicken
czar of Arkansas.
And Bob Bennett, my pall bill's Brother Bob as he calls him, who is
one of the tougher hired gun consiglieres in town here.
If you go back over the Clinton record, this came in the mail, in
what we call my ``white mail,'' people who just do not send me a small
donation but want to talk to me out of frustration. Mr. Speaker, they
listed this: Whitewater, the Ron Brown scandal, historic world tax
increases, the Vince Foster so-called suicide, the Zoe Baird scandal,
Nanny-gate, the cattle futures deal, Travel-gate, the FEC election
fraud that I just mentioned, General Janet Reno and Waco, not to
mention other things that happened on her watch.
In Great Britain she would have honorably resigned the day after
Waco, with 3 pregnant women and over 20 children and several teenagers,
some of them choked to death on gas, mercifully being spared being
burned to death.
Joycelyn Elders' resignation. The woman who said, ``If I could wear a
condom on my head as a crown, I would do it.'' That is how she picked
up the name, the condom queen. Then she said it was a proud moniker.
Shredded evidence, disappearing documents, disappearing memories.
The Paula Jones lawsuit, which we will have to suffer through in the
spring of next year whether Mr. Clinton wins or not.
Savings and loans problems. Still, that is a bipartisan scandal
there, but I know where most of the votes were when my good friends on
the other side were in the majority.
TheHazel O'Leary fiascoes. The Michael Espy resignation. The Roger
Altman resignation. The shadowy finances. TheHenry Cisneros scandal.
The national debt, at record high and still going up. And that is
pretty much bipartisan.
And then, as my writer says, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
Here is a document, a political document. Looks like a Federal
document, but it is not. I do not even know the group that sent it out,
but it says ``Murder in the First Degree: Interim Report on the Death
of commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 Other citizens''. And in the
first paragraph, and I am going to check this, as the chairman of an
Armed Services subcommittee and Committee on National Security, it says
all 35 people were dead at the crash except for a stewardess. That is
not the right title. They are sergeant attendants. Shelly Kelly, who
was riding in the tail, sustained only minor cuts and bruises; that she
was well enough to get out as sole survivor of the 35 on the plane;
that she climbed on the helicopter itself, it says here. This goes on
for 37 pages. And that she died on the helicopter mysteriously.
I flew four times with Sergeant Shelly Kelly. Her husband is an Air
Force sergeant. Two children. And in the PX, where we went to get some
supplies, some toiletries for a trip into Bosnia with Shelly Kelly on
this very same airplane, she was in the line ahead of me. Intelligent,
strikingly professional, good looking lady sergeant. And I said why are
you buying those wine bottles; is my crew partying tonight? Oh, no. I
always bring home two wine bottles from everywhere I go as air mobility
command member, Congressman. And she said my husband does the same. He
is up at Ramstein. And when I get home, we have one bottle of wine at
dinner, and then we save the other one. We have quite a collection to
give to our children.
Well, Shelly Kelly is in heaven now, Mr. Speaker, and her husband is
left with that wine bottle collection from all around the world. These
two excellent servants of the people in the Air Mobility Command. And I
am going to have to find out if there is any truth that she survived
that crash, less than a month after CODEL members, the gentleman from
Alabama, Sonny Callahan, the gentleman from Arizona, Bob Stump, myself,
and four or five other Members flew four times on that aircraft, from
Aviano to Zagreb to Tuzla and other flights in that area just March of
this year.
Now, last night, on this floor, two Californians who had joined my
district, Christopher Cox has the coastline, Dana Rohrabacher has the
coastline just north of Huntington Beach on the inland land-locked
Democrat majority district by about 10 points. They had a special order
because Mr. Cox got hold of a memo, which I guess the dominant media
culture, liberal to the core, at least in New York and Hollywood and
D.C., has not really printed this full memo; that somehow or other was
obtained by House committees through document searches and demands.
They have been stonewalling, most of the records that the gentleman
from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger], doing a great job in his last few
months serving this House, serving the people of Pennsylvania, and it
is a task list and it is dated December 13, 1994.
This is the culmination of the first 2 years of the Clinton
administration. It is only 35 days after the historical election of
November 8, 1994, which turned this House over from Democrats, from 40
years of rule, most of it liberal leadership. And I repeat, referring
to that Henry Cabot Lodge speech on the Senate floor, that was my first
election. The age was 21 then. I had gotten my wings just past 21 and a
half years of age, and I watched theHouse go the other way in my first
election. Everything else in California went the other way, too. I
voted absentee.
And after 40 years, we take theHouse and here is a memo 35 days later
called task list. It sounds like the pejorative politically inspired
documents, but also seeking the truth, that I just read. This is a
Clinton administration document. They use the alphabet instead of
numbers. So here are 26 items, and then they follow with double
letters, 13 more. So here is 39 steps to Pennsylvania Avenue.
A. Foster document handling, and it assigns it to somebody named
Nemetz, N-E-M-E-T-Z.
Travel office, assigned.
WhiteHouse, treasury contacts.
Obstruction of justice.
Criminal referrals, the Jay Stephens thing. RTC whistle-blower
reprisals.
E. Use of WhiteHouse resources for response efforts. Give that one to
Nolan, wherever he is.
Foster suicide. Nemetz again.
Epsy, ethics, expanded Smaltz inquiry in relation to: Tyson's Hatch
Act.
Cisneros, Brown, Hubbell. Those are all separate items.
Ickes, union representation.
Stephanopoulos and his NationsBank problem.
State Department. The passport files.
Archives. Abuse of the personnel system.
Legal defense fund.
Health care task force.
WhiteHouse operations. Passes, drugs. Drugs, helicopters. That is a
reference to David Watkins again.
Residence renovations. That goes to Neuwirth.
Presidential immunity goes to Sloan.
WhiteHouse, Arkansans. That is Thomasson, Nash, Rasco.
PIC surplus. I do not even know what that is. I will find out.
Improper electioneering.
GSA. That is the Orange County guy that endorsed Clinton, Roger
Johnson. His life has never been the same.
Value partners.
Presidential campaign. The FEC audit.
See, December 13, 1994. They are talking about this $37,000 payoff
fund to cover up a sexual harassment case against the chief
administrator of the Clinton campaign, David Watkins.
Commodities. That goes to Kendall, whoever he is.
Then they start the double A, double B numbering.
Gubernatorial campaigns. Lindsey Wright. Record keeping.
Gubernatorial something else.
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Whitewater and MGSL. The Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. That goes
to Kendall.
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Other Madison Guaranty, that cost the taxpayers $60 million, and
McDougal. That went to Kendall, too. He ought to be subpoenaed before a
House committee before we close here. Rose law firm, we have a statute
of Mr. Rose who founded that law firm, one of Arkansas's two allowed
statues in Statuary Hall here. He must be turning in his grave the last
3 years and 10 months.
Then under the same heading as the Rose law firm is HRC work for,
that is the Rose firm work for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. The
Frost case. FSLIC representation. Kendall got that. David Hale, Susan
McDougal, small business, she is going to jail. David Hale is on his
way. Well, he has given testimony. That went to Kendall. Tucker sits
all by itself. He is going to jail. Lasater, he got a better break than
Susan McDougal. He is under house arrest without an anklet. For 4 years
he cannot leave his home because he does have serious health problems.
What a lucky guy.
African-Americans all across the country said, let some African-
American get a phony loan for $300,000, rip the taxpayer off, and they
gave the case in Arkansas where a gentleman was sick and he was sent to
jail anyway and he died a year later. He was in wheelchair. So they are
not too happy about that. Lasater, bond deals. This is their memo,
their memo. Task list, December 13, 1994. Under I, issues, it says, ah,
that is item 35, Lasater, open parentheses, bond deals, cocaine; Roger
Clinton, close parentheses. Next one, use of loans to achieve
legislative initiatives. Talk about campaign reform. ADFA, aid to
families, political favors, Larry Nichols. Larry Nichols was the
original whistleblower in all of Clinton's last gubernatorial campaign.
Mena Airport, CBS, ABC, NBC, and even CNN have assiduously disregarded
anything to do with this infamous airport in West Arkansas near the
Mississippi River, and yet they have it on a WhiteHouse memo, Mena
Airport. And this one is a small ``t,'' troopers, trooper-gate.
Because one year before, on December 20, as this member sat in for
the incomparable Rush Limbaugh, the Rush man, I introduced because Rush
was in the Caribbean on his well-earned first vacation in years with Ed
McLaughlin, his discoverer, I got to introduce the trooper-gate mess on
the Rush Limbaugh show coast to coast to a rolling audience then of 15
to 20 million people.
So it says troopers. And then, item am, No. 39 numerically, it simply
says, small ``w,'' women. Women. The unmentioned one will not be
mentioned. Open parentheses, Kendall/Bennett, that has to be Bob
Bennett, assigned it to him. Then it starts and he switches from a
Roman numeral to an Arabic numeral 2, new category titled
Preliminaries. Identify the key Republican objectives and reasons for
achieving them; that is, sustain the shadow on WJC character.
Mr. Speaker, could that be William Clinger? Hype theHRC threat to
white men, traditional women. Identify guiding principles for
responses.
These are all items. Nothing to hid, stick to the facts, get it right
the first time. Keep it simple, stupid. That sounds like Carville
writing this memo. It goes on and on and on and on through a whole
page, surrogate roles, and then it comes over to an entire, you know
how the Congressional Record has tiny print, send for this
Congressional Record, folks, those leaving up in the gallery, then it
comes down to item 18, they keep changing, they did not Jesuit
outlining skills taught to them. I wonder if Clinton got that at
Georgetown. Here is No. 18 of about the fifth category, it says FEC
audit, determine congressional interest. Somebody should have written
``intense'' next to that. This is, again, the disgraced David Watkins.
Assembled binders with summary and key documents. Media let them get
off on that. They would have hammered war hero George Bush or the
beloved Ronald Reagan if they had him on that. Then it comes down to 21
other preinaugural items, (a), Lindsey role, Betsey Wright, role of the
Bank of Cherry Valley, that is one where one of the juries that let off
people on blatant evidence, but that is our jury system. Starr is
looking at 1984, 1986, 1990, these are guberatorial elections in
Arkansas.
Then it comes down to 21, subcategory (b), negative associations, Jim
Guy Tucker, year and a half later he is convicted, any number of
felonies. David Hale, Small Business Association loan. He is talking to
the prosecutors, to Kenneth Starr. Then he goes to jail. Jim McDougal,
talking, Dan Lasater, dodged everything, got that house arrest and a
pardon by Clinton. It says there, bond deals, cocaine, Roger Clinton.
Then Mena Airport again, a line item. Then it goes on and on.
And then troopers, troopers. Identify the issue. Job for silence. And
then this young guy, Buddy Young, the captain of the troopers, who
literally whored out for Clinton, I deliberately use that tough word
because his salary was more than doubled from $45,000 as captain of the
troopers to way over $95,000 to go to Denton, Texas and take over a
FEMA, a Federal Emergency Management key spot in this country with no
experience whatsoever for threatening some of the troopers and actually
silencing some, particularly one who had 5 children and triplets,
unbelievable disgrace.
Then Mr. Cox goes on, this memo is quite extraordinary. It is single
spaced. Goes on for 12 pages. As I said, lists 39 scandals, most of
which now, 2 years later, are at least known to American people. Yes,
those that follow these important things.
My point is, as I said, last week on this, America has an IQ test
that it is going to have to take on November 5. Today is the 12th. We
are not in Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. No votes Tuesday until
late. That is 5 more days gone in this month. So that is 17 days. We
have 13 days left in September when the next special order takes place.
I hope I will be up for one. I will continue with Tiger Flight and
recruit my combat tested friends, Hunter, Sam Johnson.
I will be back next week with 5 more days gone, 12, that is 17, so
that means 13 days in this 30-day month; 31 next, that is 44. When we
come back in for legislative business, there will be 49 days left in
the presidential election, 49 days before Gil Gutknecht rides to glory
with a 60, 70 percent election up there in God's country in the
northwest of our great country, middle northwest it should be called
now.
Mr. Speaker, here is why this is so important to me, all these
scandals. It is because we are faced with a constitutional crisis right
now. Last Sunday, a few days ago I was in my district. I went to the
back of the church, St. Columbans, great Irish saint that turned wild
blue-faced Picts in Scotland into Christians, brought the word of
Christ to Scotland with St. Kevin and St. Columba. But this is
Columban.
In St. Columbans in Garden Grove, CA, at the back of the church is a
plaque and it says on the plaque that these men, the following, died in
the service of their country in the war in Vietnam. And it lists six
names and then it says, may their souls repose in peace, or words to
that effect.
I said to my wife, it is time for me to write down these names and go
to the Vietnam Memorial at the kiosk, because I had done this at
Cambridge, England to look at Colonel EugeneHolmes' kid brother, Bob,
as I mentioned earlier who, and last week I mentioned him, who had died
from his wounds at altitude, German fighter aircraft and flak tearing
up the B-17, died of his wounds on the aircraft, but the aircraft made
it safely back to his base and he was buried the next day on Veterans
Day of 1943. The air war had been canceled over Germany because we were
losing so many airplanes, 2 raids, we lost six four-engine ten- or 11-
man crewed bombers over Schreinford and then Regensburg-Schreinford. So
we ended the air war from October, so he must have been hit over
France. We did not start up again until February. We started. We could
still lose the air war. Germans had not even put their jets in the
field yet. But since I have looked up and I had forgotten how easy is
to get a man's date of death and birth and age, so forth, and I took
down these 6 names and my Sally reminded me yesterday. So I could not
get off the floor so I sent a staffer down to the Vietnamese Memorial.
Within minutes he was back with their names, I mean the barest of
statistics on their death.
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Here they are. In my parish church, here is the names of six young
Americans who died serving their country in Vietnam. I will make a
point on this. J. Patrick Fitzsimmons, lance corporal Marine Corps,
died a month past his 21st birthday, May 18, 1967, he was born in 1946,
I guess that is the beginning of the baby boom. His dad was probably a
veteran who came home from the war and count back 9 months from 1946
and that is certainly a child brought into the world at the end of our
victorious allied effort of World War II. George Xavier Rocha, private
first class, born February 3, 1946. He was conceived after the war in
Europe ended, the very month, VE day. May of 1945. Birthday February 3,
1946. Died 21 years old, 10 and a half months, on December 18 of 1967.
Bill Clinton is starting his 3 months into his senior year at
Georgetown, getting ready to use graduate school to avoid his first
draft notice which, by the way, was not right because graduate school
deferments ended in 1967.
Then David Simmons, born in Grand Rapids but died as a citizen of
Garden Grove, sergeant, Army, date of birth, August 16, 1944. Probably
his dad home on leave. He died March 16, 1968, 23 years and one month
to the day.
Patrick F. Scharosch, spec 4, U.S. Army, born December 18, 1945, war
had been over just a few months when his mother went into labor and
brought him into what looked like a very promising world, Christmas of
1945, the world at peace for the first time in six horrible
bloodletting years, 55 million dead in all the extended families with
broken hearts that their loved son or daughter, in the case of European
Jewry, the whole extended families gone up literally in evil smoke from
Hitler's crematoria. He died April 15, 1968. I know exactly where I was
that day, on the way to Vietnam as a reporter.
He was 22 years, 4 months, J. Michael Foster, another marine,
corporal, he was born on VE day itself, May 8, 1945. In between his
mother's birth pangs, no TV in the hospital rooms then, but I am sure
proud dad and brothers and sisters bringing her newspapers, the war is
over in Europe. Well, it ended the day before, it ended on the sixth,
Ike took the unconditional surrender, would not even show up, he so
disrespected General Yodal and then declared May 8 the VE day. Some
prisoners were still dying. Some people liberated in camps were still
dying but at least they knew freedom, breathed free for a day or two
before their emaciated bodies gave up their souls to God and in Russian
camps that had been overrun, U.S. prisoners, I repeated from earlier,
those with the Slavic names died in the Gulag camps over the next
decade.
Let me please give this last name, Mr. Speaker, J. Michael Foster,
died March 24, 1969, 23 years, 10 months and, thank you for the
courtesy of the one officer, major, Marine Corps, Robert M. Fitzgerald,
born in Yonkers, NY, date of birth, January 3, 1936, the year of my
brother's birth. His death was June 1, 1970, 34 years, 5 months, the
year Bill Clinton returned from his triumphal tour of Prague, Moscow,
and Scandinavia.
Mr. Speaker, I include for the Record the following information:
[From POLI news, Sept. 10, 1996]
From Watergate to Whitewater to Filegate, There May Not be a Santa
Claus, but There's Definitely a Law of Karma!
When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Nussbaum were manipulating
the law to continue their vendetta against Nixon, which
eventually brought the word `impeachment' into everyday
usage, who thought the law of Karma, AKA The Law of Return,
would come into play some 25 years later? One may well wonder
if HRC had been studying Eastern Philosophy instead of
cranking out McGovern posters, would the WhiteHouse be the
Sing-Sing on-the-Potomac?
Let's take a brief stroll down felony lane and look at the
Clintons' Legacy:
Trooper-Gate, our randy President-to-be uses state
employees, State Police to be exact, to pimp for him, rating
the women on a scale of one to ten, (with HRC un-listed) with
basement `soirees' as HRC slept upstairs and even an
assignation at 4:45 am on the very morning he left for D.C.
According to Trooper Roger Perry, Clinton offered him a
federal job in return for his silence. Candy may be dandy,
and liquor, quicker, but a Federal job has real appeal! Among
those supposedly given jobs-for-sex: the infamous Gennifer
Flowers, who replaced a black woman for a administrative post
for which Ms. Flowers had no expertise. Now there's a new use
for tax dollars.
Nanny-gate, with a full 27 nominees for high office
disqualified for not paying Social Security taxes. Among
these, Zoe Baird, who with her husband, both high-priced
lawyers, failed to take a few bucks out of their annual
$500,000 income to pay the green carded nanny's way.
Haircut-gate, where his royal highness Bill tied up the Los
Angeles airport while he got a $250 haircut which cost the
airport thousands of dollars, while delaying the busy lives
of actual `little tax-paying people.' Looking at our
President's bushy hair, I think the cut was overpriced.
Travel-gate, where seven loyal WhiteHouse workers were not
only fired, which the Clintons had every right to do as these
people served `at the pleasure of the President' but against
all laws of the land, the First Lady and the First Bill
brought in the FBI and the IRS to trash the reputations of
innocents to save their own, since the `Haircut' had
previously left a bad taste in the public's mouth. Clinton
so-called `cousin' (because no one can find her lineage
actually connecting her, by blood or marriage, to the family)
young, blonde and inexperienced, (at least in the travel
business), Catherine Cornelius was hired to run the Travel
Office. Unbeknownst to them, but latter knownst to us, their
stalling on document-releases in this affair, gave Rep.
William Clinger the power to threaten Contempt of Congress,
thereby yielding a treasure trove of documents. Among the
papers, it was learned that, yet another scandal, involving
the FBI and secret documents, was to be revealed.
File-gate, where, in true Clinton style a ``few,'' then
``about 300, from A to G,'' to the current `over 1,000'
classified personal FBI files, mostly of Republicans who had
served in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Incredibly, we
have learned that those in charge of this enemies list were
never, themselves, able to pass a security clearance for such
reasons as drug use, including, marijuana, cocaine, crack-
cocaine and other `hard drugs', theft, including thousands of
dollars of lap-top computers stolen after the campaign, (with
surveillance camera videos of the actual stealing!), and
other past histories of the criminal kind.
Mena-gate, which is currently being worked on, Mena being
an airport in Arkansas, under the direction of FOB (formerly,
Friend-of-Bill, now Felon-of-Bill) Dan Lassiter, used to
traffic an estimated $110 MILLION/month of cocaine into the
U.S.A.
Foster-gate, in which for the first time in this century, a
dead body smells up the WhiteHouse. Vince Foster, one-time
`special' friend of Hillary and family lawyer, was
suspiciously found dead, jurisdiction was given to `park
police' to, contrary to all the evidence (e.g., clean,
polished shoes, after a long walk through a dusty brush-
filled park, unexplained carpet fibers on the dead man's
clothing, blonde hair and semen stains on the underclothes,
non-functioning gun found in the wrong hand, absence of
bullet, spent shell, skull-fragments and other forensic
evidence, fingerprint-less `suicide note' w/o any words of
love for family, torn into 27 pieces (try this at home),
gravity-defying blood-stain on face, impossibly small amount
of blood for a `head shot' etc., etc.) rule `suicide' and
then the body was quickly cremated before extensive
examination would be done.
Lest we forget to note the, shall we say, interesting list
of Presidential appointees:
Joycelyn (the Condom Queen) Elders, who suggested
prostitutes be implanted with `Norplant' to enable them to
ply their trade, wanted ``safer bullets'' (!?!, Ed.) Most
famous quote, ````If I could wear a crown on my head with a
condom on it. I would.''''
Henry Foster, who said he had performed ``a few''
abortions, then continued to lie to Congress as it was
revealed that ``a few'' equaled over 700. Dr. Foster claimed
those opposing his nomination were ``racists.''
Web Hubbel, former FOB and Hillary's Rose Law partner,
actual un-appointed Attorney General, responsible for the
Waco Massacre, now serving time in the penal Club Fed, who
let the blame for the dead children fall on the broad
shoulders of
Janet Reno, Attorney General, most famous quote ``My
highest priority is not to convict criminals, but to protect
their rights.'' Ms. Reno was also given `what-for' in a
Senate vote of 100-0 when she tried to overturn George Bush's
position on child pornography.
Ron Brown, deceased Commerce Secretary, formerly under
investigation by: Department of Justice; Special Prosecutor;
FDIC; Congressional Reform and Oversight Committee; FBI; DOE;
Senate Judiciary Committee; Commerce Dept.; and Inspector
General. At the time of the plane crash which reportedly
killed Sec'y. Brown, there were 22 Congressmen demanding
Brown's removal and prosecution. Among the major scandals in
which Brown was involved: Whitewater; Mena Drug smuggling;
the Denver Airport mess; The Keating Five; Haitian Madame
Lillian Madsen's prostitution ring; $700,000 received from
Russia and deposited in a Singapore Bank to drop trade
embargo with Viet Nam (which was accomplished), thereby
propping up the Viet Nam Communists; Special `favors' (tax
and regulatory) breaks given by Brown to Democrat Party
and Clinton Victory Fund (to re-elect Clintons) Influence
Peddling by Cabinet Official $12.5K/mo. from Haitian
dictator-in-Exile Duvalier; $50M sent to Viet Nam
Communist gov't.; $360,000 town house for the
aforementioned Mme. Madsen; illegal ChemFix Waste Mgt.
account with
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former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, worth millions; Capitol/
Pebsco illegal pension fund account with DC Mayor Marion
Barry; sale of gas-turbine engine to China for use in
cruise missiles; illegal Iranian Muslims weapons deal into
Bosnia against US/Ally Trade Embargo, money for which came
from Depts. of Commerce and Agriculture slush funds, and
supplied helicopter gunships, stinger missiles, land
mines, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tanks weapons, grenade
launchers and over 20,000 muslim troops, including their
elite Mujahedeen; illegal $500,000 cash with gov't loans
money deal with Yolanda Hill to fund Democratic National
Committee; illegal $6 Billion Saudi deal for military
aircraft and hardware coupled with illegal $4 Billion AT&T
contract, of which DNC and Bill Clinton were
beneficiaries. Now here lies a busy, busy capitalist!
Henry Cisneros, Sec'y of HUD, under investigation for lying
to FBI in matter involving money and mistress.
Mike Espy, former Sec'y of Agriculture, resigned after
Tyson (FOB) Food Giant `bought influence,' with this case
still active.
Ira Magaziner, Health Care Czar and Friend of Hillary,
investigated for spending a bit over budget for the now
infamous, socialist Health-Care Task-Force fiasco. A bit over
budget, you ask? Well, for an original estimate of $300,000
to become an actual bill of over $15 Million from the
taxpayers, I, for one, would like my money back. It would
seem the `Force' was `tasked' to redistribute wealth from the
tax payer to their private Swiss accounts, non? Ooh la la!
Hazel O'Leary, Energy Secretary, who has shown she can
overspend with the best of 'em. Hazel took 68 of her closest
friends on a Madonna-like tour, using theHollywood and Rock
stars' favorite transport jet, (complete with gold toilet
fixtures and hot tubs) claiming billions of business garnered
for the US, which was proven to be less than millions.
Donna Shalala HHS Sec'y and another `special' friend of
Hillary, famous for the television and radio, condom
campaign, at tax-payer's expense, spending over $1 Million
thus far.
9. H.J. Res. 77. Use of force Against Iraq/Passage
Passage of the joint resolution to authorize the use of
military force if Iraq has not withdrawn from Kuwait and
complied with U.N. Security Council resolutions by Jan. 15.
The resolution authorizes the use of force and the
expenditure of funds under the War Powers act and requires
the president to report to Congress every 60 days on the
efforts to obtain Iraqi compliance. Passed 250-183: R 164-3;
D 86-179 (ND 33-147, SD 53-32); I 0-1, Jan 12, 1991. A
``yea'' was a vote supporting the president's position.
Alabama:
Callahan-Y.
Dickinson-Y.
Browder-Y
Bevill-Y.
Cramer-Y.
Erdreich-Y.
Harris-Y.
Alaska:
Young-Y.
Arizona:
Rhodes-Y.
Udall-?.
Stump-Y.
Kyl-Y.
Kolbe-Y.
Arkansas:
Alexander-N.
Thornton-Y.
Hammerschmidt-Y.
Anthony-N.
California:
Riggs-N.
Herger-Y.
Matsui-N.
Fazio-N.
Pelosi-N.
Boxer-N.
Miller-N.
Dellums-N.
Stark-N.
Edwards-N.
Lantos-Y.
Campbell-Y.
Mineta-N.
Doolittle-Y.
Condit-Y.
Panetta-N.
Dooley-N.
Lehman-Y.
Lagomarsino-Y.
Thomas-Y.
Gallegly-Y.
Moorhead-Y.
Beilenson-N.
Waxman-N.
Roybal-N.
Berman-Y.
Levine-Y.
Dixon-N.
Waters-N.
Martinez-N.
Dymally-?.
Anderson-Y.
Dreier-Y.
Torres-N.
Lewis-Y.
Brown-N.
McCandless-Y.
Dornan-Y.
Dannemeyer-Y.
Cox-Y.
Lowery-Y.
Rohrabacher-Y.
Packard-Y.
Cunningham-Y.
Hunter-Y.
Colorado:
Schroeder-N.
Skaggs-N.
Campbell-Y.
Allard-Y.
Hefley-Y.
Schaefer-Y.
Connecticut:
Kennelly-N.
Gejdenson-N.
DeLauro-N.
Shays-Y.
Franks-Y.
Johnson-Y.
Delaware:
Carper-Y.
Florida:
Huffo-Y.
Peterson-N.
Bennett-N.
James-Y.
McCollum-Y.
Stearns-Y.
Gibbons-N.
Young-Y.
Bilirakis-Y.
Ireland-Y.
Bacchus-Y.
Lewis-Y.
Goss-Y.
Johnston-N.
Shaw-Y.
Smith-N.
Lehman-N.
Ros-Lehtinen-Y.
Fascell-Y.
Georgia:
Thomas-Y.
Hatcher-Y.
Ray-Y.
Jones-Y.
Lewis-N.
Gingrich-Y.
Darden-Y.
Rowland-Y.
Jenkins-N.
Barnard-Y.
Hawaii:
Abercrombie-N.
Mink-N.
Idaho:
LaRocco-N.
Stallings-N.
Illinois:
Hayes-N.
Savage-N.
Russo-N.
Sangmeister-N.
Lipinski-N.
Hyde-Y.
Collins-N.
Rostenkowski-Y.
Yates-N.
Porter-Y.
Annunzio-N.
Crane-Y.
Fawell-Y.
Hastert-Y.
Madigan-Y.
Cox-N.
Evans-N.
Michel-Y.
Bruce-N.
Durbin-N.
Costello-N.
Poshard-N.
Indiana:
Visclosky-N.
Sharp-N.
Roemer-N.
Long-N.
Jontz-N.
Burton-Y.
Myers-Y.
McCloskey-N.
Hamilton-N.
Jacobs-N.
Iowa:
Leach-Y.
Nussle-Y.
Nagle-N.
Smith-N.
Lightfoot-Y.
Grandy-Y.
Kansas:
Roberts-Y.
Slattery-Y.
Meyers-Y.
Glickman-Y.
Nichols-Y.
Kentucky:
Hubbard-Y.
Natcher-N.
Mazzoli-N.
Bunning-Y.
Rogers-Y.
Hopkins-Y.
Perkins-N.
Louisiana:
Livingston-Y.
Jefferson-N.
Tauzin-Y.
McCrery-Y.
Huckaby-Y.
Baker-Y.
Hayes-Y.
Holloway-Y.
Maine:
Andrews-N.
Snowe-Y.
Maryland:
Gilchrest-Y.
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Bentley-Y.
Cardin-N.
McMillen-Y.
Hoyer-N.
Byron-Y.
Mfume-N.
Morella-N.
Massachusetts:
Conte-N.
Neal-N.
Early-N.
Frank-N.
Atkins-N.
Mavroules-N.
Markey-N.
Kennedy-N.
Moakley-N.
Studds-N.
Donnelly-N.
Michigan:
Conyers-N.
Pursell-Y.
Wolpe-N.
Upton-Y.
Henry-Y.
Carr-N.
Kildee-N.
Traxler-N.
Vander Jagt-Y.
Camp-Y.
Davis-Y.
Bonior-N.
Collins-N.
Hertel-N.
Ford-N.
Dingell-Y.
Levin-N.
Broomfield-Y.
Minnesota:
Penny-N.
Weber-Y.
Ramstad-Y.
Vento-N.
Sabo-N.
Sikorski-N.
Peterson-N.
Oberstar-N.
Mississippi:
Whitten-Y.
Espy-N.
Montgomery-Y.
Parker-Y.
Taylor-N.
Missouri:
Clay-N.
Horn-N.
Gephardt-N.
Skelton-Y.
Wheat-N.
Coleman-Y.
Hancock-Y.
Emerson-Y.
Volkmer-Y.
Montana:
Williams-N.
Marlenee-Y.
Nebraska:
Bereuter-Y.
Hoagland-Y.
Barrett-Y.
Nevada:
Bilbray-Y.
Vucanovich-Y.
New Hampshire:
Zeliff-Y.
Swett-Y.
New Jersey:
Andrews-N.
Hughes-Y.
Pallone-Y.
Smith-Y.
Roukema-Y.
Dwyer-N.
Rinaldo-Y.
Roe-N.
Torricelli-Y.
Payne-N.
Gallo-Y.
Zimmer-Y.
Saxton-Y.
Guarini-N.
New Mexico:
Schiff-Y.
Skeen-Y.
Richardson-N.
New York:
Hochbrueckner-N.
Downey-N.
Mrazek-N.
Lent-Y.
McGrath-Y.
Flake-N.
Ackerman-Y.
Scheuer-N.
Manton-N.
Schumer-N.
Towns-N.
Owens-N.
Solarz-Y.
Molinari-Y.
Green-Y.
Rangel-N.
Weiss-N.
Serrano-N.
Engel-Y.
Lowey-N.
Fish-Y.
Gilman-Y.
NcNulty-Y.
Solomon-Y.
Boehlert-Y.
Martin-Y.
Walsh-Y.
McHugh-N.
Horton-Y.
Slaughter-N.
Paxon-Y.
LaFalce-N.
Nowak-N.
Houghton-Y.
North Carolina:
Jones-Y.
Valentine-Y.
Lancaster-Y.
Price-N.
Neal-N.
Coble-Y.
Rose-N.
Hefner-N.
McMillan-Y.
Ballenger-Y.
Taylor-Y.
North Dakota:
Dorgan-N.
Ohio:
Luken-Y.
Gradison-Y.
Hall-N.
Oxley-Y.
Gillmor-Y.
McEwen-Y.
Hobson-Y.
Boehner-Y.
Kaptur-N.
Miller-Y.
Eckart-N.
Kasich-Y.
Pease-N.
Sawyer-N.
Wylie-Y.
Regula-Y.
Traficant-N.
Applegate-N.
Feighan-N.
Oakar-N.
Stokes-N.
Oklahoma:
Inhofe-Y.
Synar-N.
Brewster-Y.
McCurdy-Y.
Edwards-Y.
English-N.
Oregon:
AuCoin-N.
Smith-Y.
Wyden-N.
DeFazio-N.
Kopetski-N.
Pennsylvania:
Foglietta-N.
Gray-N.
Borski-Y.
Kolter-N.
Schulze-Y.
Yatron-N.
Weldon-Y.
Kostmayer-N.
Shuster-Y.
McDade-Y.
Kanjorski-N.
Murtha-Y.
Coughlin-Y.
Coyne-N.
Ritter-Y.
Walker-Y.
Gekas-Y.
Santorum-Y.
Goodling-Y.
Gaydos-N.
Ridge-Y.
Murphy-N.
Clinger-Y.
Rhode Island:
Machtley-Y.
Reed-N.
South Carolina:
Ravenel-Y.
Spence-Y.
Derrick-Y.
Patterson-Y.
Spratt-Y.
Tallon-Y.
South Dakota:
Johnson-N.
Tennessee:
Quillen-Y.
Duncan-Y.
Lloyd-Y.
Cooper-Y.
Clement-Y.
Gordon-Y.
Sundquist-Y.
Tanner-Y.
Ford-N.
Texas:
Chapman-Y.
Wilson-Y.
Bartlett-Y.
Hall-Y.
Bryant-N.
Barton-Y.
Archer-Y.
Fields-Y.
Brooks-Y.
Pickle-N.
Edwards-Y.
Geren-Y.
Sarpalius-Y.
Laughlin-Y.
de la Garza-Y.
Coleman-N.
Stenholm-Y.
Washington-N.
Combest-Y.
Gonzalez-N.
Smith-Y.
DeLay-Y.
Bustamante-N.
Frost-Y.
Andrews-Y.
Armey-Y.
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Ortiz-Y.
Utah:
Hansen-Y.
Owens-N.
Orton-Y.
Vermont:
Sanders-N.
Virginia:
Bateman-Y.
Pickett-Y.
Bliley-Y.
Sisisky-Y.
Payne-Y.
Olin-N.
Slaughter-Y.
Moran-N.
Boucher-N.
Wolf-Y.
Washington:
Miller-Y.
Swift-N.
Unsoeld-N.
Morrison-Y.
Foley-N.
Dicks-N.
McDermott-N.
Chandler-Y.
West Virginia:
Mollohan-Y.
Staggers-N.
Wise-N.
Rahall-Y.
Wisconsin:
Aspin-Y.
Klug-Y.
Gunderson-Y.
Kleczka-N.
Moody-N.
Petri-Y.
Obey-N.
Roth-Y.
Sensenbrenner-Y.
Wyoming:
Thomas-Y.
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