Political Quotes

“one of the things that mystifies me, and I am sure it does my colleague from California, is why we are stonewalling here on the majority side to end up probably with hearings in the early fall or late summer, right as we are going into an election period. Here is the front page story, and I do not know if the gentleman saw it today, in the Washington Post, the east coast liberal paper of record, along with the New York Times. Listen to this headline: 'Whitewater Repossesions.' The subheading is 'Sales Practice Benefitting Clintons and Partners,' by two reporters, Howard Schneider and Susan Schmidt. For 3 years Clyde Soapes, Jr., a Texas grain elevator operator, regularly mailed monthly payments to the Whitewater Development Corp. for a lot along Arkansas' White River, where he planned to build a fishing cottage. He paid $244.69 and made 35 installment payments over 3 years, and by the way, he had put $3,000 down. Then he got diabetes. He did die eventually, and it was repossessed by the McDougals and the Clintons. They wiped the man out, and his family. They would resell it, repossess it again, resell it, and none of this seems to be recorded. Imagine this front page story today, coming out in hearings in a few months.”