[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H7929-H7930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WHITE HOUSE CONDUCTING SMEAR JOB ON HENRY HYDE

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that more Members on 
the other side of the aisle this morning have not been condemning the 
smear

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job that was done on the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Henry Hyde).
  Chuck Colson, legal counsel to the President under Richard Nixon, was 
sent to Federal prison for disclosing one-half of one FBI file. This 
administration: Hundreds of FBI files ended up in the hands of an 
opposition researcher for the Democratic Party at the White House. 
Nixon had an enemies list of people they would not invite to luncheons. 
This administration has a list of people it has set out to destroy.
  Mr. Speaker, we have here a pattern of abuse, personal attacks on the 
gentlewoman from Idaho (Mrs. Helen Chenoweth), the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Dan Burton) and now the chairman of the Committee on the 
Judiciary. This is unconscionable. None of us is perfect, but we will 
not be intimidated, we will not be blackmailed. This administration is 
mirroring the worst types of lies, of Watergate lies and abuses, only 
it is worse.
  To those who set forth this strategy of trying to disclose decades-
old indiscretions in order to intimidate the Members of Congress, it 
will not work. We will not be intimidated.

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