[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CONCERNING RELEASE OF REPORT PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS' MONEY

  (Mr. WAXMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WAXMAN. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado 
[Mrs. Schroeder].
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California 
for yielding to me.
  Basically what I was trying to do is, I had a whole list of 
editorials that have been written across the country dealing with this 
report that we have been trying to get released for over a month.
  Mr. understanding of the ruling of the Chair is that we cannot even 
talk about what the editorial said. I find that fairly astonishing, 
that they tell us we can go outside and talk about it, but we cannot 
talk about it on the floor.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Madam Speaker, if I can reclaim my time, I would mention 
to the gentlewoman and others that the so-called Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight has been issuing reports scathingly 
attacking the administration without any evidence. They keep on saying, 
``The report says that,'' and that is their justification for their 
accusations, both on the Travel Office, and they are going to try to do 
something on the FBI files, a very, very partisan hatchet job.
  Those reports are being issued without evidence, but a report that we 
have paid for with taxpayers' money we are not allowed to see, and the 
public is being kept from having those reports available to us.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I thank the gentleman from California.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time has expired.

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