[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10840]
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            STATISTICS ON INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INVESTIGATIONS

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, quite frankly, I have had it right up to my 
eyeballs with the rhetoric from the Democrats and the White House. Now 
Vice President Gore has the gall to go to my state, Florida, and slam 
Republicans for too many investigations.
  Mr. Speaker, this is like Clyde saying to Bonnie, ``I can't believe 
the law continues to pursue us.''
  He does this as he is under investigation by his Attorney General. 
Then the Vice President has the audacity to say that Republicans are 
dragging their feet on investigations.
  Do they think the American people and the Congress are fools? When 
over 100 witnesses have either fled the country or taken the 5th 
Amendment? The fact is that more independent counsels have been 
appointed by their Democrat-appointed Attorney General for this 
administration, their administration, than all the previous in the 
history of the United States.
  The fact is the Independent Counsel law expired in 1992 under 
President Bush. The fact is President Clinton signed into law and 243 
Democrats, all but two, voted to pass the Independent Counsel Law, and 
put these investigations in place only after their Attorney General 
finds substantial and credible evidence of wrongdoing. Those are the 
facts.

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