William Pryor: “Mr. President, 121 witnesses have now testified before the Whitewater committee. The Whitewater committee has subpoenaed…”

“Mr. President, 121 witnesses have now testified before the Whitewater committee. The Whitewater committee has subpoenaed all long-distance telephone records, domestic telephone records, calls by the White House, and they have examined 45,000 pages of White House documents. I think this is an unheard of amount of evidence that they are trying to go over and over and over. Mr. President, also I noted in the Washington Post, finally-- finally--the newspapers and press are about to become aware of an issue that I think is also critical to this story, and that is the amount of legal fees, the amount of legal fees that many of these witnesses are being forced to bear. Most of them could not afford these fees. There were stories this morning in the Post about some of those individuals and some of the tremendous, burdensome, and very high, tremendous legal fees that these individuals are being now asked to assume personally-- not paid for by the Government, but personally. This will bankrupt them into perpetuity. It will destroy their financial lives and their financial well being. And I hope, Mr. Leader, that we will see a higher degree of sensitivity to those concerns.”