Pete Stark: “I am troubled, as Members may have realized, and we are doing this just to recap, I least of all would have any brief…”

“I am troubled, as Members may have realized, and we are doing this just to recap, I least of all would have any brief for Mr. Magaziner and whatever attempts he may have made at public service. I have no brief for people lying, whether it is Republican Presidents or Democratic Presidents or Secretary Schlesinger, Secretary Kissinger, I do not care, Ollie North. People should not lie. It does happen. In this case, the administration apologized and recognized the error of its ways and it has been assessed legal fees to a bunch of right wing wacko doctors down south. And so if they want their $280,000, then let these Neanderthals collect it. And we can do that by, in fact, accepting my unanimous consent request to make this resolution binding. I do not think my colleagues want to touch it. I think the Republicans are afraid that what they have done is so silly that it would cause more harm than good. We have offered to give it to them. We are offering it again. They can have it. They can win. Make it a law. Stop the taxpayers from having to pay the money. But they do not dare. They do not dare. They are backing away. They are cowards. Come on. Here we are, we are willing to prevent it in a law, and they will not do it.”