[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]




                             PAYBACK TIME?

  (Ms. GREENE of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GREENE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, in February 1995, the Clinton 
administration settled a 212-page draft criminal complaint against the 
Laborers' International Union. The Justice Department listed some 80 
criminal convictions of Laborers officials over a 20-year period. The 
convictions were for major felonies like racketeering, extortion, tax 
evasion, and attempted murder.
  To reform the union, career prosecutors asked for appointment of an 
outside administrator. Instead, Clinton let Union President Arthur Coia 
off the hook, and told him to clean up the union in which he had--
according to Justice--created a ``climate of fear and intimidation.''
  Federal Election Commission records show that the Laborers gave the 
Democratic Party soft money contributions of $460,000, for the 18-month 
period ending in June, more than any other union, and more than all but 
seven other donors.
  Could the connection be more obvious?

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