[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 56 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      WHAT EDITORIAL BOARDS ARE SAYING ABOUT BURTON INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. WAXMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, nothing alarms the American people more than 
an abuse of power and an invasion of people's privacy. The gentleman 
from Indiana (Mr. Dan Burton) has grossly abused the most unprecedented 
power that any Congressman has ever had in the history of this 
institution in violating the privacy of an American citizen.
  These complaints are not just the complaints of Democrats. I want to 
read from the Hartford Courant:

       Who could have anticipated that a renegade congressional 
     committee chairman would subpoena the tapes and release them 
     to the public, disregarding Federal prison policy and 
     provisions of the Privacy Act? People have much to fear from 
     an elected official who takes such liberties and abuses his 
     power.

  And the USA Today said:

       Republican leaders will only compound the impression of 
     partisanship if they fail to turn the fund-raising over to a 
     committee with a less biased leader.

  Mr. Speaker, we must ask the Republican leadership to fix this 
problem, not just to apologize to their own Members.

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