[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H11234-H11235]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REPUBLICANS UNIFIED BEHIND BOB DOLE

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, people are talking behind your back. They 
say that you Republicans are not a unified party. That you're running 
away from the top of your ticket. But, I think you are united behind 
Bob Dole.
  Just look at the way that your hand-picked Ethics Committee is hiding 
the truth about the Gingrich scandals. It's a page right out of the Bob 
Dole playbook. Look at the similarities. Bob Dole won't tell us the 
truth about his tax-cut plan--and the Ethics Committee won't tell us 
the truth about Newt's tax-return scam.

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  In San Diego, Bob Dole tried to write a platform saying that the GOP 
is a ``tolerant'' party. He's right. Just look at the Ethics Committee. 
They'll ``tolerate'' anything that Newt Gingrich does.
  Dole wants to build a bridge to the past. So does the Ethics 
Committee--back to the days when Congress conducted its business in the 
dark, out of the public eye.
  Speaker Gingrich, you might as well exercise some power and call on 
the Ethics Committee to release its report on your ethics scandals. 
After all, once the elections are over, you might not have any power 
left to exercise.

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