Adam Schiff: “Mr. Speaker, in any event, the General Accounting Office took a look at the new White House Travel Office and the first…”

“Mr. Speaker, in any event, the General Accounting Office took a look at the new White House Travel Office and the first thing they found was financial discrepancies in the sense of deposits not being entered in the checkbook and so forth. Nobody has been fired in the White House Travel Office over that. The point is that was never the reason why these employees were discharged. There has been ample evidence of that throughout all of the testimony. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say before I yield to the gentleman from California that with respect to Mr. Watkins' legal fees, I do not know what will come out of that. Maybe at some point Mr. Watkins can come to the Congress also. I can say, however, because I attended the hearings that this matter continues to be alive in the U.S. Congress because Mr. Watkins' memorandum, which he himself wrote and notes that he himself wrote, contradict, in my judgment at least, what he and others told the official investigators in this case, and that is what is keeping this matter at the center of congressional attention, getting a straight story on that.”