[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15651]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              HILLARY CLINTON MIRED IN ANOTHER CONTROVERSY

  (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, candidate Hillary Clinton is mired in another 
controversy. She has been accused of using an obscene ethnic slur when 
her husband lost a race for Congress in the 1970s. More than one person 
says they heard it, and now it is out in the open.
  It has been said that the character of a person can sometimes best be 
seen in how they carry themselves when they lose. Ethnic slurs or 
throwing things are not generally regarded as marks of strong 
character.
  Ms. Clinton, of course, denies that it ever happened. It sort of 
depends though on what the meaning of ``it'' is. Does it not?
  Her husband says it did not happen, or at least not quite the way the 
other witnesses claimed it happened. He says something like it may have 
happened, because he says, and I quote, she has never been ``pure on 
profanity.'' Not much of a defense there.
  There are three witnesses who claim she did, and two, she and her 
husband, who claim she did not.
  I just want to ask one question. Can anyone imagine Barbara Bush 
being accused of this or Nancy Reagan or Rosalyn Carter or Betty Ford 
or Pat Nixon or Lady Bird Johnson? There is definitely a stature gap 
here.

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