[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SHOULD BE RESIDENCE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, HONOR, 
                                DIGNITY

  (Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, the New York Post reported 
last week, quote, ``115 American men and women are in jail--forever 
marked as felons--for having committed perjury in Federal courts, and 
before grand juries.''
  Now, if any one of these felons had been resting in their air-
conditioned jail cells last week watching C-SPAN on their color 
television sets, they would certainly be confused, but also gratified.
  ``Confused'' to see so many Members debating whether perjury is 
something that we still take seriously; ``excited'' to know so many 
Democrats have taken the side of the perjurers in saying that it is 
not.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, if the prosecutors and judges who have already put 
115 perjurers behind bars want to find another one, all they have to do 
is ask any Member of Congress for the street address of the wrongdoer's 
hideout. Better yet, crime fighters need only ask any student in 
America who might have read in their civics textbook that 1600 
Pennsylvania Avenue is supposed to be the residence of democracy and 
the American Way: Justice, honor, dignity, truth, and all the rest.

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