[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15756-15757]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TIME FOR KARL ROVE TO COME CLEAN

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I guess the Republican leadership is now 
condoning Karl Rove's behavior, but think about what the previous 
President Bush said about this.
  On September 30, 2003, and I am quoting President Bush, this is the 
current President Bush, ``If there is a leak out of my administration, 
I want to know who it is, and if the person violated the law, the 
person will be taken care of.''
  Well, that was nice talk then, but now it appears that it was all 
talk. The Republican leadership has no problem condoning Karl Rove's 
behavior and his leak. On Monday we learned that Karl Rove leaked 
Valeria Plame's identity, an act that Bush's father called treasonous.
  Rove's actions were an outrageous abuse of power, but the longer 
President Bush allows him to remain on the job, the more it looks like 
the President is condoning activity that his own father called 
treasonous. It is amazing to me that the Republican leadership is

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now willing to come to the floor and say that that is okay. It is 
outrageous.
  Listen to what the previous President Bush said: ``Don't let this 
stonewall continue on the part of the White House.''
  It is time that Karl Rove come clean. It is time that the President 
force him to resign.

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