[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]




                THIS ADMINISTRATION NOT THE MOST ETHICAL

  (Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, for one minute let us say 
out loud what Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are saying 
privately about what they are reluctant to say in public: The emperor 
has no clothes.
  It is obvious that the people who came to Washington, promising the 
most ethical administration in history, is nothing of the sort. The 
nearly $3 million the Democratic National Committee returned after the 
1996 election, because it came from foreign sources, was not raised by 
accident. White House assertions that they do not know how the White 
House ended up with 900 FBI files on Republicans are not true. And the 
assertion that no one knows who hired Craig Livingston is not only a 
lie, it is a laughable one. White House denials that the Lincoln 
bedroom was not sold or the White House coffees have nothing to do with 
fund-raising are lies.
  Just more examples of an almost pathological inability to be honest 
with the American public. The latest scandals are simply more of the 
same, and they are popping up everywhere.
  Mr. Speaker, why sugarcoat what everyone knows to be true. The 
emperor has no clothes.

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