Gary Condit: “I stand today opposed to the rule. Let me say that all of us in this body today are working frantically to try to do…”

“I stand today opposed to the rule. Let me say that all of us in this body today are working frantically to try to do what we can to balance the budget of this country. Both my Republican colleagues and my Democratic colleagues are working very hard to do that. Yet today we stand here considering expending $15 million to do an investigation in the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, $15 million, when we are trying very hard to balance the budget of this country. This is confusing to the American people. We are spending $15 million, or requesting $15 million, when in the Senate they are spending $4 million. They are spending $4 million to do a bigger and broader, more encompassing investigation than what we are considering here in the House. That does not make sense to the American people. I came here in 1989. I do not think there has been 30 days since I have been here that we have not been investigating someone or something. I will tell my colleagues, the American people are sick and tired of that.”