[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. BURTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I was going to take a 5-minute 
special order, but because of all the tactics that have been employed 
today, I will not have that time to get into the details.
  I would just like to say that the outrage that has been expressed 
regarding the campaign finance reform bill should also include the 
dilatory tactics employed by the White House in keeping the Independent 
Counsel from getting information that is necessary to conclude his 
investigation into illegal campaign finances and into the allegations 
that took place down at the White House regarding Ms. Lewinsky.
  Now the White House is claiming executive privilege to drag this 
investigation out and drag it out and drag it out and keep Mr. Starr 
from getting to the bottom of it. They have done this on four separate 
occasions here in the House of Representatives by claiming executive 
privilege. It did not work. They have done it three times in the 
courts, and it did not work. It will not work this time.
  But the White House continues to drag it out and drag it out. And the 
President continues to take these trips abroad to try to take attention 
away from this scandal that is taking place. It will not work.
  But the President should make a clean breast of this and stop this 
from going on and on and on as he has over the past several months. He 
should not claim executive privilege. It has not worked in the past, 
and it will not work now.

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