[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1771]
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            TWO GRATUITOUS AND PROMINENTLY PUBLIC CRUELTIES

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                        HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR.

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 27, 1996

  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, the world can note that on September 26, 
1996, two gratuitous and prominently public cruelties were perpetrated, 
one in Los Angeles, CA and the other in Washington, DC.
  The first was a patently false and despicable allegation against a 
decent and grieving father. The second was a putridly partisan and 
singularly cruel hurt to the family of an already convicted and 
currently imprisoned former Member of the House. The theory in the 
second unkindness seems to be, ``never hit a man when he's up.''
  Let the record show that high Federal officials of both parties have 
been convicted of felonies. And in the case of one high Federal 
official who was not convicted, only because he was pardoned by the 
President he handpicked to succeed himself, the assertion by his allies 
was, ``He has suffered enough''--suffered enough without serving so 
much as a day in prison.
  Our colleague from Connecticut is to be commended for having the 
decency demonstrably to remove from the easel in the Well of the House 
the device by which salt was callously rubbed into the wound.

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