[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 56 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H2936-H2937]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           WHO IS THE VICTIM?

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, who is the victim here? Webster 
Hubbell, who was President Clinton's third highest ranking official in 
the Clinton Justice Department, embezzled nearly half a million dollars 
from his law partners.
  This is the kind of person that the President appointed to be the 
third ranking official within the Department of Justice:
  Webster Hubbell, whom Clinton donors gave more than $700,000 after he 
was forced to resign from office. Webster Hubbell, who paid less than 
$30,000 in taxes after receiving more than $1 million in income in 
1994. And we note

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that there is evidence that he did not actually even earn this income. 
Webster Hubbell, who plea bargained with Judge Starr and then refused 
to cooperate with Judge Starr and who then took the fifth amendment 
before the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.
  Now the Democrats are trying to portray him as the victim.
  Mr. Speaker, the Democratic Party has long been the victimization 
party, but this is the mother of all misplaced victimhood.
  Why does the other side not address instead their hero's jailhouse 
comments: needing to roll over one more time?

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