[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 37 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1191]
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                CALLING FOR A NEW HEAD OF FBI FORENSICS

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to invite Members of the House to 
join me in sending a letter to the Director of the FBI asking that he 
consider appointing our colleague, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. 
Burton], as the new head of the FBI forensics lab. Given the problems 
the FBI is having, he obviously has the ability to do the job.
  He discovered, when noboby else did, that Vince Foster's body was 
moved. Second, he obviously has the experience because he used his 
backyard to fire a bullet into ``a headlike object'' to test his 
forensic theories. And certainly, in light of the revelations in the 
Washington Post yesterday about conversations with Pakistanis, he 
certainly can be counted on to run that lab with at least as much 
evenhandedness as he apparently will run the congressional 
investigation.
  Of course, given his decision to exempt Congress from the review of 
his committee, that is indeed damning with faint praise.

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