[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10836]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             HUMPTY DUMPTY

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, it is time for a nursery rhyme for the kids 
in the White House:
  ``Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.''
  Mr. Speaker, back when this nursery rhyme was written, when kings 
were sovereign and people were subjects, it was a revolutionary concept 
to say that we the people are sovereign and that government officials 
are subject to the rule of law like all other citizens.
  In America, the President is not a king. In America, no man has more 
rights because he has more money, more property or higher position. All 
are equal before the law. All are subject to the law. And when a man 
violates the law, he must answer to the law and not opinion polls.
  ``And all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put 
Humpty Dumpty together again.''
  Today all the king's men are still trying to put Humpty back together 
in one piece, but falling and breaking the law has consequences in 
America even for a man who thinks he is above the law.

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