Dana Rohrabacher: “I am disappointed that more Members on the other side of the aisle this morning have not been condemning the smear job…”

“I am disappointed that more Members on the other side of the aisle this morning have not been condemning the smear job that was done on the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Henry Hyde). Chuck Colson, legal counsel to the President under Richard Nixon, was sent to Federal prison for disclosing one-half of one FBI file. This administration: Hundreds of FBI files ended up in the hands of an opposition researcher for the Democratic Party at the White House. Nixon had an enemies list of people they would not invite to luncheons. This administration has a list of people it has set out to destroy. Mr. Speaker, we have here a pattern of abuse, personal attacks on the gentlewoman from Idaho (Mrs. Helen Chenoweth), the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Dan Burton) and now the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. This is unconscionable. None of us is perfect, but we will not be intimidated, we will not be blackmailed. This administration is mirroring the worst types of lies, of Watergate lies and abuses, only it is worse. To those who set forth this strategy of trying to disclose decades-old indiscretions in order to intimidate the Members of Congress, it will not work. We will not be intimidated.”