[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 160 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H10775-H10776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   COFFEE MAY CAUSE CURIOUS BEHAVIOR

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, a lot of our friends on the left today 
and in the past several weeks have been talking about campaign finance 
reform. I wonder if any of them sees the great irony in the 
administration's sense of curiosity.
  On the one hand, White House political operatives seem to have such 
an extraordinarily developed sense of curiosity that they miraculously 
ended up with 900 confidential FBI files on their political enemies. 
But on the other hand, the White House seems to have little curiosity 
about the possibility that John Huang might have seriously compromised 
national security while working for the Commerce Department in his 
capacity, apparently, as foreign fundraiser-in-chief.
  What is even more remarkable that every single Democratic Senator, 
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one exception, investigating some of these events seems to have a lack 
of curiosity about exactly how much money the liberal group was able to 
funnel into the 1996 Presidential campaign.
  Maybe all of this curiosity is entwined with some of these folks 
having attended some of these White House coffees. Maybe there is 
something in the coffee that makes them curious on the one hand, but 
then lose their curiosity on something else, and maybe that is 
something that should be investigated as well.

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