[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]




               CONGRESS SHOULD CONSIDER ``RENO DIVORCE''

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, those of us in the majority join with 
those in the minority mourning the death of William Pascrell, Sr. We 
pass along best wishes to the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pascrell] 
and to the gentleman's family.
  Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the comments of the 
gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Barr], a former United States attorney, and 
the gentleman from Georgia is absolutely right.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a difference between deliberation and dilatory 
tactics. Sadly, this Justice Department, in deciding to decide to 
perhaps one day to decide if there should be independent counsel to 
check into the alleged wrongdoing of the Vice President, is delaying 
and stonewalling.
  Mr. Speaker, with all due apologies to the gentleman from Nevada [Mr. 
Gibbons], perhaps this body should examine its own form of Reno divorce 
to see what we can do under the Constitution to examine the actions or 
the inaction of this Attorney General because, Mr. Speaker, it is 
important that those elected to high office obey existing law.

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