TJ Cox

He possessed one FBI file, it was learned, and therefore he was convicted and sent to prison, for one file.

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…

In fact, they are all of them employees of the White House, all of them staff of the President.

That is correct; and also how to conjure, after the fact, legal justifications and pretext for sins of omission and commission already occurred.

It is the very heading in their own memo, ``Obstruction of justice.'' This is prepared by the White House counsel's office, analyzing the legal problems of the Clinton administration.

For a very long while, The request for 3,000 pages was originally described not all that long ago by the White House as a request for toilet paper, that this was a trivial request, that they should not be asked for such documents. When…

Not only were they very worried about them, but what is outlined in this memo is a specific step-by-step plan to keep the Congress and the American people from finding out the truth.

Well, of course we had to subpoena it, we had to threaten to subpoena it, because we asked for all of the Travelgate memos to be turned over. Travelgate, which was another Clinton White House scandal, involved the firing and smearing…

That is exactly right, and it is rather clear that Jane Sherburne, the associate White House counsel who personally drew up this list of all of these scandals, was prescient. While they were claiming no wrongdoing, behind the scenes they…

But for those people who are getting the bill to read just now, they are in the same position as are the Members on the majority side. The bill is only ready today in legislative form for them to review and determine whether you can…

In order to accommodate the ranking member, who was very supportive of this legislation, as you know, and in order to accommodate both sides, majority and minority, we made those changes. I am very, very intent on doing so. I told the…

There is no death penalty provision. There are obviously death penalty provisions on the books for terrorism but that is not a subject in this bill. As you know, when we were discussing this before the Committee on Rules, we indicated…

I just wanted to briefly ask the gentleman from Texas a question. That is, having listened to the comments of the gentleman from California [Mr. Dooley], with which I generally agree, that is, that kind immigration and illegal immigration…

The gentleman makes a very fair point. In fact, the effect of gentleman's just having won on his amendment is that the provisions of this amendment that would otherwise have dealt with service of process will have no effect. The gentleman…

Of course this took place yesterday in the Rules Committee, and there was only one Member of Congress yesterday who had his legislation on the floor of the House, and it was this Member.

And after last week, as a result of conversations with Members on the Democratic side, it was suggested to me that I narrow the scope of my amendment and that I not propose an amendment to Federal law that would cover tort litigation in…

She stated that the bill was retroactive, and I stated that it was not, and I then went back and checked, and indeed that provision of the bill, the effective date, which is a biolerplate provision that comes at the end that this Member…

The original lawsuits were filed under State laws and in State courts. The gentleman brings a new matter to my attention, but I assure him that lawsuit was surely filed after January 4, after the date of introduction of this bill, which…

I oppose retroactive legislation. It does not work. We had the same question come up on title I of this bill. I opposed it there. I say to my colleagues, The fact is, if you have two different rules operating inside of the same lawsuit, it…

What we will be doing by passing this amendment would be opening the door for frivolous lawsuits in a particular type of case. Ironically, there would even be new issues to litigate. Now we could litigate the question of whether a…

I think that the gentleman from Michigan earlier pointed out that the Wall Street Journal usually understands where to get their information, and there is not much question but that that is what the bill does, and in particular this…

I would just point out, we just saw an exhibit on the floor and, as is so often the case when one reads the headlines, you miss the story. In the fine print the gentleman from Michigan forgot to tell us the last sentence of that happens to…

For many years the Commission has supported legislation to eliminate the overlap between the private remedies under RICO and under the Federal securities laws. The securities laws generally provide adequate remedies for those injured by…

As I mentioned, the Supreme Court, all of the Justices, both in the majority and minority of this RICO case, viewed this as an area where congressional action is richly needed because RICO, although technically being exploited within the…

I point out that the RICO amendment, which the gentleman is accurate in stating that I will soon offer, was in fact inadvertently left out of the bill when we combined the Commerce and Judiciary portions. It was in the original bill…