[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 107 (Monday, August 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H6884-H6885]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      JUDGE STARR DOING A GOOD JOB

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, Judge Starr was appointed by a 3-judge 
panel to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by the White 
House. Mr. Speaker, he has compiled a remarkable record.
  Although we would never know it if we were watching TV today, Judge 
Starr has been perhaps the most single independent successful counsel 
in history. Fifteen guilty pleas or convictions thus far. Fifteen. And 
yet, the untruth gets repeated over and over again

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that Judge Starr has ``nothing to show'' for his investigations.
  David Hale, Charles Matthews, Eugene Fitzhugh, Robert Palmer, Webster 
Hubbell, Neal Ainley, Christopher Wade, William J. Marks, Sr., Jim Guy 
Tucker, John Haley, Stephen Smith, and Larry Kuca, these 12 have all 
pleaded guilty to felonies as a result of Judge Starr's investigations.
  In addition to those guilty pleas, Governor Jim Guy Tucker, James 
McDougal, and Susan McDougal have been convicted by a jury of their 
peers for other crimes they have committed.
  Twelve guilty pleas and 3 convictions. Nothing to show? Let the 
American people decide if these allegations are true.

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