[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H8169-H8170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   WONDERING WHAT IRS WOULD MAKE OF WHITE HOUSE EXCUSES FOR CAMPAIGN 
                          FINANCE LAWBREAKING

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, one wonders what the IRS would make of the 
excuses the White House makes whenever it comes to campaign finance law 
breaking. How ironic it is that the same administration that has an IRS 
out of control, an IRS that targets average citizens for political 
purposes, especially if they happen to work for the White House Travel 
Office, or used to,

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an IRS that gives one absolutely no benefit of the doubt, is the same 
administration that actually claims to be cooperating fully with 
congressional investigators while putting up a stone wall bigger than 
the Great Wall of China.
  Do my colleagues think the IRS would be satisfied with the sudden ``I 
don't recall'' syndrome that happens every time a White House official 
testifies before Congress? Do my colleagues think the IRS would let 
them slide with the ``no controlling legal authority'' defense? Do my 
colleagues think the IRS would cut them some slack if they got caught 
red handed and then turned around and said, ``The system made me do it, 
and anyway, everybody cheats''?
  I wonder.

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