[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 55 (Wednesday, May 6, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REASONS FOR RELEASING THE HUBBELL TAPES

  (Mr. KANJORSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on the occasion of being a 
member of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the 
disagreements that have occurred between the minority and the majority.
  I think it is vitally important to understand what some of the major 
issues are, and one of the issues being the tapes. I want all the 
American people to know that we believe that under the law, the 
committee is entitled to have the tapes. In fact, a subpoena was issued 
last July, and that subpoena was responded to by the Justice Department 
by providing our committee with all of the tapes of Mr. Hubbell's 
discussion with his family and friends while he was institutionalized 
in a Federal institution for conviction of a crime unrelated to 
Whitewater or anything that we are investigating.
  The problem was should these tapes be released to the public and 
whether or not it in any way impeded what the committee was doing. The 
fact is we had the tapes for more than 6 months.

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