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Robert Dornan: “Let me tell the gentlewoman, as somebody who started investigating Little Rock in 1992, before the Clintons were in the…”

On the recordMay 29, 1996
Let me tell the gentlewoman, as somebody who started investigating Little Rock in 1992, before the Clintons were in the White house, I think Little Rock, just Little Rock, in an otherwise great State, and only in the field of politics with some businesspeople, was a stinking hole of corruption; with not this current Governor, but the prior Governor, a stinking hole of corruption. And that like Hamlet's line about murder, though it hath no tongue, will by most miraculous organ out, all of this financial corruption will by most miraculous organ out by, using her very words, truth in speaking.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Discussing corruption in Little Rock during a special order speech.

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