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Robert Dornan: then let me deviate in the remaining few moments to point out the headline--these are public issues--the headline of…

On the recordSeptember 26, 1996
then let me deviate in the remaining few moments to point out the headline--these are public issues--the headline of yesterday's Washington Times: ``In Jail, McDougal Plays Media Queen,'' is cocky. In Dayroom 212 of Pod B of the Faulker County Jail, she is the queen, she thinks she is going to get pardoned. ``Clinton's Words Fuel Pardon Talk. Will Whitewater Figures Go Free?'' Imagine if a Republican tried this. Today's headline: ``Whitewater Log On Files Has 6-Month Gap.'' These people are being charged with looting banks, and the taxpayers having to make up the difference, pirating money from banks, and if one person is immune from discussion, then let us talk about all the others. A person is known by the company he keeps. I want to close discussing this rule XVII because people watching this House may be confused about the separation of powers. To keep order in this place, there is comity between Members and the Members in the other body, and it can be stretched when one Member criticizes on the Senate floor this Member for being a hobbyist on a gut-ripping issue like POW issues and Missing In Action, but we have to have some comity here. But only in this Congress, the 104th Congress, was the office of the President and the office of the Vice President put under the rules, thereby damaging the separation of powers.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing media coverage and political implications of the Whitewater investigation.

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