[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PRESIDENT THREATENS TO CALL US INTO SESSION TO INVESTIGATE CAMPAIGN 
                             FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Madam Speaker, it is actually hilarious to listen to the 
President threaten to call us into session to investigate campaign 
finance reform. Maybe for 1 day we can investigate his friends who are 
in jail, 1 day we can investigate his friends who have been released 
from jail, 1 day to investigate his friends who are indicted and maybe 
soon heading to jail, 2 days to investigate his friends who received 
immunity, one for partial and 1 for people who have received full 
immunity, 2 days for his friends who are pleading the fifth and 
unwilling to testify, and 3 days for his friends who have given him 
money and are now escaped overseas, and we could actually break this 
down by continent, or maybe if we have a few extra days, we can look 
into the impeachment resolution of the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. 
BARR].
  What a joke. Did he think of this when he was raising the million 
dollars in San Francisco the other day? Before or after? I think it is 
a mockery of this process for this President to propose that we should 
be looking at campaign finance reform. He is the one with the problem.

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