[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12438-12439]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       MISUSE OF FEDERAL AGENCIES

  (Mr. FROST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, as I was saying at a press conference last 
week, not since Watergate and Richard Nixon 30 years ago have 
government agencies been used for domestic political purposes. And now, 
as in Watergate, we have the smoking gun.
  Today's issue of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, my hometown newspaper, 
reports that the Department of Public Service in Texas sent an e-mail 
to all its officers in the middle of last week ordering that all 
records of the contact with the State legislators and government 
agencies be destroyed.
  I will read you what appeared in today's Star Telegram addressed to 
captains. The order said, ``Any notes, correspondence, photos that were 
obtained pursuant to the absconded House of Representatives members 
shall be destroyed immediately. No copies are to be kept.''
  Now, we have asked for records on the Federal level. Since they have 
already been destroyed on the State level, we demand that those records 
on the Federal level be released now before they can be destroyed.
  Remember Rosemary Woods and the 18 minute gap. Release the record 
today here in Washington so that we will not have what happened in 
Texas the last week.

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