[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          SO MUCH FOR THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED 104TH CONGRESS

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, the Speakership of the gentleman from 
Georgia, Newt Gingrich, like the 104th Congress and the Contract on 
America, are all beginning to unravel. The ethics probe has been 
dramatically expanded, and now the committee believes that the Speaker 
may have been lying to the outside counsel.
  Even committee Republicans, who have seen all the evidence and who 
still refuse to release the report, supported the decision to expand 
the probe. Republicans obviously have decided to throw the gentleman 
from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] overboard, as long as they can postpone the 
bad news until after the election. Throw Newt overboard, use their 
little gray buckets to bail themselves out with the American people.
  The charges are very serious: Tax fraud, money laundering, 
corruption, and now, lying to the outside counsel. So much for personal 
responsibility, so much for a reform-minded Congress, and so much for 
the Republican-controlled 104th Congress.

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