[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 31 (Thursday, March 19, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1303-H1304]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, a White House official was quoted in the New 
York Times last month referring to ``our continuing campaign to destroy 
Ken Starr.'' Listen to that again, and I am quoting, ``our continuing 
campaign to destroy Ken Starr.'' Here is a White House spokesman openly 
acknowledging their despicable strategy to destroy Judge Starr, the 
special counsel named by a 3-judge panel to investigate allegations of 
serious wrongdoings by the President.
  Am I to conclude that the Democratic Party thinks it is okay to smear 
the independent counsel? Am I to conclude that the Democratic Party 
does not care that the White House was in possession of 900 FBI files 
of Republicans, in gross violation of law and the civil rights of 
American citizens? Am I to conclude that the Democratic Party

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does not care if the integrity of our judicial system is violated, that 
obstruction of justice and lying under oath is okay if it is done by a 
Democrat? Am I to conclude that the President is in fact above the law 
because the Dow Jones is doing great?
  Where are your outraged voices, Democrats? Your silence speaks 
volumes.

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