Bill Bennett: “as my friends on the Democratic side of the aisle have so often reminded us during the debate, there is a mechanism…”

“as my friends on the Democratic side of the aisle have so often reminded us during the debate, there is a mechanism going forward in the Governmental Affairs Committee to investigate all aspects of the 1996 campaign, congressional as well as Presidential. This is clearly not the function of an independent counsel. The function of an independent counsel is to investigate allegations of the most serious and difficult kinds of lawbreaking. I know of no such allegations that would require a special counsel in the area outside of those that we have talked about during the debate. Therefore, I intend to vote against this resolution because it does not address the problem that we face. Whatever problem is there will be clearly handled, and handled competently, by the Governmental Affairs Committee.”