[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 118 (Tuesday, September 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7018]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TIME TO CLEAN UP DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, when I served under President 
Reagan as U.S. attorney, one of my colleagues told me of a defendant, a 
public official who had just been convicted of corruption, who said, 
``Mr. U.S. Attorney, we knew what we were doing was wrong, but nobody 
ever told us it was jail wrong.''
  Well, Mr. Speaker, America was fortunate back then that we had U.S. 
attorneys and a Department of Justice that were concerned with people 
who were doing ``jail wrong'' things and prosecuted them. Now we have 
an Attorney General who is not only not concerned with prosecuting 
those who do wrong, but the best this Attorney General will do is to 
decide whether to decide whether to decide if we will have an 
independent counsel to investigate clear evidence of wrongdoing by the 
Vice President.
  Mr. Speaker, America yearns for the days when wrongdoers faced a 
Federal justice system that actually went after the bad guys. The time 
has come to clean up the Department of Justice.

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