[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            WHERE HAVE ALL THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS GONE?

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, investigative journalists pursued 
alleged scandals involving former House majority leader Tom DeLay and 
former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, even though neither 
was ever convicted of any wrongdoing. But today, few investigative 
reporters are focused on what could be a criminal attempt by the Obama 
administration to manipulate the Democratic Senate primaries in 
Pennsylvania and Colorado.
  While we don't know all the facts about the administration's actions, 
we do know the following: It is against the law to offer a government 
job in exchange for dropping out of a political race. It is against the 
law for administration officials to interfere in the nominee process of 
a Senate election. And it is against the law to obstruct justice.
  Rather than a swarm of investigative reporters demanding answers from 
the administration, we hear only the sound of crickets chirping on the 
White House lawn.

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