[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7928]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT CONTINUES

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I am outraged that the Committee on the 
Judiciary is about to release the tape of the President's grand jury 
testimony to the public. I thought that grand jury testimony is 
supposed to be confidential. So much for due process. The whole purpose 
in releasing the tape is to once again embarrass and humiliate the 
President as Mr. Starr did in his report when he put in graphic sexual 
details so our children could read them on the Internet. We did not 
even give the President the simple courtesy of seeing the report a day 
or two before its release even though we had given the Speaker of the 
House the courtesy when the House Ethics Committee had charges against 
him. So much for the bipartisanship that was promised to us by the 
House Republican leadership. The political witch-hunt against the 
President continues.

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