Political Quotes

TJ Cox: “I believe my colleague would be correct if he had said that that was a precise quotation from the President. He…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
I believe my colleague would be correct if he had said that that was a precise quotation from the President. He described this as a bureaucratic snafu. This was a couple of years after the White House counsel's office began investigating the whole thing according to this very memo and identified it as a scandal in the making. Only, they identified it just to themselves, not to anyone else. Yet when it first burst upon the national scene, it was for the President to say, this is merely a bureaucratic snafu. Now we know that the administration was at least criminally incompetent if not malevolent in abusing the privacy of scores of honest public servants.
Said by
TJ Cox
California
Source
govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the administration's handling of a scandal during a floor speech.

Share

Share on XShare on FacebookEmail this quote

More from TJ Cox

Sep 11, 1996

I thank the Speaker. The memo is quite extraordinary. It is single-spaced, goes on for 12 pages, and, as I said, lists 39 scandals, most of which, now, 2 years later, are known to the American people, but a few of which are actually brand…

govinfo.gov
Apr 8, 2019

I urge the Subcommittee to fully fund the administration's water infrastructure improvement for the Nation.

congress.gov
Jun 18, 1998

That interpretation is the correct interpretation. As the gentleman knows, that section of this resolution, section 7, is taken essentially verbatim from the rules of the House concerning the procedures for the Permanent Select Committee…

govinfo.gov
Apr 29, 2019

One of the first things Ryan Zinke did after becoming Secretary was try to implement a massive solution in search of a problem.

congress.gov
View all TJ Cox quotes

Other voices in this conversation