[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4934-4935]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         CULTURE REPUBLICANS BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON IS NOT GOOD

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, last night former majority leader Tom 
DeLay blamed Democrats for his fall from power. He said Democrats were 
upset because Republicans changed the culture of Washington.
  Well, Republicans changed the culture around here all right. Two of 
Congressman DeLay's former aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Rudy and 
Press Secretary Michael Scanlon have already pleaded guilty as part of 
the ongoing Jack Abramoff scandal.
  Then there are the revelations that the President's chief domestic 
adviser, Claude Allen, was forced to resign from his position at the 
White House after he was caught repeatedly shoplifting from Target 
stores in Maryland.

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  And just last night, a deputy press secretary at the Department of 
Homeland Security was arrested on charges that he used the Internet to 
seduce what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Fortunately, an 
undercover deputy sheriff detective was on the other end of the 
computer and Brian Doyle, a Bush political appointee, has now been 
arrested.
  Madam Speaker, the culture has changed around here, that is for sure, 
but certainly not for the good.

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