[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 51 (Thursday, April 30, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    WHY ARE THE DEMOCRATS STONEWALLING THEIR OWN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, 
Democrats are saying the American people are tired of talking about 
White House scandals. Well, congressional investigators are even more 
tired of the stonewalling, lack of cooperation and extraordinary memory 
loss that seems to afflict Harvard and Yale Law School graduates 
whenever they are called to testify. I believe the American people are 
stunned by the evasions, the retractions, the utter devotion to spin 
over truth coming out of this White House.
  Mr. Speaker, it is Democrats on the House Committee on Government 
Reform and Oversight who are doing the stonewalling. Letters from the 
Justice Department say, and it has been said already, that Justice does 
not oppose granting immunity to four key witnesses in the campaign 
finance investigations, and I will just repeat that. The Justice 
Department does not oppose immunity, and yet the Democrats on the 
committee refuse to grant immunity.
  I ask the American people to be the judge. Why would the Democrats be 
stonewalling their own Justice Department?

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