[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     INVESTIGATION OF LABOR UNIONS

  (Mrs. MINK of Hawaii asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MINK of Hawaii. Mr. Speaker, in January of this year I became 
the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the 
Workforce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. I had the 
promise of the chair of that committee that we would work together 
closely, that we would coordinate the activities that the Republican 
majority wanted to pursue.
  And thus far, I have gone along. I have cooperated. I have allowed 
the Republican majority to follow whatever agenda of investigation they 
wanted to pursue. It was basically a crossroads investigation to see 
whether money in education and labor were being wisely spent on the 
idea of what works and what does not work.
  Suddenly a week ago we are told that the Committee on House Oversight 
of the whole House of Representatives has authorized my committee $1.4 
million for an investigation that has never been raised in my 
subcommittee. We have never spent 1 minute on it. I am not against 
investigations. If there is corruption, let us go after it. If there is 
abuse of power, let us go after it. But let us not waste taxpayers' 
money for sheer partisan political purposes.

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