Political Quotes

“on March 9, the majority leader stated that those Republicans, like myself, who want Congress to conduct hearings into the Whitewater matter, are engaging only ``in partisan politics at its worst,'' and that such hearings risk ``fatal damage'' to the special counsel's ongoing investigation. Our leader then said that we have an important oversight responsibility but we must defer that responsibility at the request of the special counsel. The leader invoked the name and arguments of the less than illustrious Lawrence Walsh, former special prosecutor of the Iran-Contra investigation, as authority for Congress to defer hearings pending the outcome of the special counsel's investigation. Mr. President, I certainly admire our majority leader. I think he is doing an extraordinary job as he has always done, but I do not at all admire Lawrence Walsh. It is obvious that Mr. Walsh would want to blame Congress for his dismiss record. He cost the taxpayer over $35 million over a period of 6 years and came up with almost nothing. I for one pray that Mr. Fiske will not be another Lawrence Walsh. If he becomes one, then we will look foolish by standing idly by at the behest of another branch of Government, watching the taxpayers' money being wasted. No, Mr. President, I am not going to rely on the weak authority of Lawrence Walsh.”