[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11052]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 PRESIDENT CLINTON SHOULD DROP CONSIDERATION OF PARDONS FOR WHITEWATER 
                                FRIENDS

  (Mr. BACHUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Speaker, this May, a Little Rock jury returned guilty 
verdicts on a total of 24 felony counts against President and Mrs. 
Clinton's Whitewater business partners, James and Susan McDougal, and 
the President's successor as Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker.
  It must have come as great comfort to Susan McDougal and her 
codefendants earlier this week when, in a televised interview, the 
President refused to rule out the possibility of pardons for them if he 
is reelected.
  Accordingly, Mr. Speaker, I am introducing today a resolution that 
would declare that it is the sense of this House that President Clinton 
should specifically, categorically, and immediately disavow any 
Presidential pardons for his former Whitewater business partners and to 
former Governor Tucker. By passing this resolution before we adjourn to 
go home and face our constituents, we can send the right signal--that 
in this country, no one is above the law, and convicted criminals do 
not walk free by virtue of having friends in positions of power.

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