[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 54 (Tuesday, May 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         THE CONTINUING CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY JUDGE KENNETH STARR

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, a White House official was quoted in the 
New York Times last month referring to our continuing campaign to 
destroy Ken Starr.
  Now let us do it again. ``Our continuing campaign to destroy Ken 
Starr.''
  I sincerely appreciate my fair-minded friends on the other side of 
the aisle if they would defend the White House, which openly 
acknowledges their strategy to destroy Judge Starr, the special counsel 
named by a 3-judge panel and the Attorney General to investigate 
allegations of serious wrongdoing by the President.
  Am I to conclude that the Democrat party thinks it is okay to smear 
the independent counsel? Am I to conclude that the Democrat party does 
not care that the White House was in possession of 900 FBI files of 
Republicans, in gross violation of the law and the civil rights of 
American citizens? Am I to conclude that the Democrat party does not 
care if the integrity of our judicial system is violated and 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?

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