[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 55 (Wednesday, May 6, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MR. BURTON SHOULD STEP ASIDE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, these are not my words: ``If 
Republican leaders hope to preserve any shred of credibility in this 
House investigation, they must make it clear now that Mr. Burton must 
go. Must go now.'' The Albany Times Union, New York. Albany, New York, 
May 5, 1998.
  The real question, Mr. Speaker, is would we want this to happen to 
us? Yes, the United States House of Representatives has the legal right 
to take the tapes that were taped of Mr. Hubbell in his conversations 
between his wife and attorney. The question is do they have the legal 
right to distort the truth before the American people? Do they have the 
right to selectively issue the transcripts? No, not distort the tapes, 
but selectively issue the transcripts.
  Would we, as American citizens, want this to happen to us? Would we 
want our rights violated, our privacy destroyed and distorted? I 
believe not. And so the question becomes for this investigation to have 
any credibility, this person who leads out of this committee must step 
aside for us to be able to rise up and represent the American people.

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