[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 45 (Tuesday, April 11, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H2020-H2021]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. CAMP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Foley).
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentleman from Michigan for 
yielding me this time.
  I have heard a lot this morning in 1-minutes on campaign finance 
reform and some tactics used in the Committee on Ways and Means in 
order to extract it. I did not hear anybody ask for the Vice 
President's e-mail records. I did not ask anybody to look at the memos 
from the Justice Department and the FBI about prior scandals in this 
administration.
  Lo and behold, the sad tragedy today is the Justice Department 
refused to

[[Page H2021]]

investigate at the request of the FBI, and yet two nuns in the Buddhist 
order have been indicted. Two nuns have been indicted. Yet everyone 
else in the administration is let off scot-free.
  So my colleagues demand campaign finance reform today. I would urge 
them to ask Mr. Gore to submit his e-mail records. Let us look at 
Justice Freeh's memorandum of understanding to Mrs. Reno. Let us 
finally look at campaign finance reform as the laws apply today. But, 
no, let us create a smoke screen.

                          ____________________