[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE PARAMOUNT CONCERN

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, integrity in public service is always of 
paramount concern. I believed that last year when I addressed on this 
floor misconduct by Speaker Gingrich, and I believe it this year when I 
address misconduct by President Clinton.
  In short, I believe this Congress should take 3 steps and take them 
immediately. Number 1, it should make clear that all of the Starr 
report will be public. There is no reason this should be limited to 
some inner circle here in the Congress and drift out through leaks week 
after week after week. It should be posted on the Internet and made 
available to every American citizen.
  Number 2, this Congress should commit to stay right here until the 
job is complete. We do not need another year ruined by this whole 
episode. We need to be back attending to some of the real concerns that 
affect the American people, and the only way to do that in 1999 is to 
complete the job now.
  Number 3, we ought to go ahead and indicate we are prepared to take 
an appropriate sanction, but we want the evidence first. It is not 
punishment first and sentence later; it is after a thorough and 
deliberate consideration of the evidence before us.
  In short, we should get it now, we should get it all, and we should 
get it right.

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