[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           CENTER FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of talk by groups in 
Washington, D.C. about ethics, making sure that Members of Congress 
hold to the highest standards of ethical conduct.
  It is good stuff. But one of these groups concerned about ethics, the 
Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is not the 
nonpartisan entity we may have thought. The Center for Responsibility 
and Ethics in Washington, CREW, Mr. Speaker, is a partisan group with a 
partisan political agenda.
  According to The Wall Street Journal, board members of the group, 
including a former Clinton White House pollster, have contributed over 
$340,000 to left-wing causes in the past 4 years.
  The group's director has said, ``Since I started, the main thing I 
want to do was to go after Tom DeLay. DeLay is my top target.''
  This group is concerned about ethics, Mr. Speaker? No, I do not think 
so. It is about partisan politics. And they only have one agenda, and 
that is to file complaints against Republicans.
  Mr. Speaker, as someone new to Washington, I am not used to this 
Washington, D.C. parlor game of dirty tricks. This is about politics, 
Mr. Speaker, not about ethics.

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