[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 101 (Friday, July 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6419]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO APPOINT INDEPENDENT COUNSEL

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the lead editorial in The New 
York Times came out strongly against the Attorney General and her 
continued refusal to admit to the obvious. The law requires that an 
independent counsel be named to investigate allegations of illegal 
campaign money from Communist China into the Democratic Party in the 
1996 election.
  FBI Director Louie Freeh has pleaded with the Attorney General to do 
so. And now Charles Labella, the person who was hand picked by Janet 
Reno to lead the investigation of these charges, has told the Attorney 
General that she simply has no choice.
  The New York Times in this editorial states, ``Ms. Reno can give her 
usual runaround about being hard-headed, but she cannot hide from the 
meaning of this development.''
  Ms. Reno has ignored the advice of the FBI Director and her own hand-
picked investigator for too long. She is a lot like the character in 
Hogan's Heroes, that great TV series, Sergeant Schultz. When Colonel 
Hogan would say something to him about nefarious affairs, Sergeant 
Schultz would say, ``I know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing.''
  Ms. Reno, it is time to appoint an independent prosecutor for 
campaign finance.

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