Porter Goss: “I had no intention really of using this time today. It is more by circumstance that I take it. Last night, after our…”

“I had no intention really of using this time today. It is more by circumstance that I take it. Last night, after our long day's work here, I went home. I was having my dinner with my wife, and we turned on the TV and I was checking on C-SPAN to see if in fact we were having any further floor action on subjects that interested me. I got into the Correspondents Dinner downtown in Washington. I believe that is a dinner traditionally where the correspondents and the top leaders of our country get together and, in a good natured and good humored way, poke fun at each other; they get together and have some time of friendship and fellowship, take time out from their schedules. It is usually an enjoyable circumstance. I would say that I thought that President Clinton did an extremely good job of carrying the mood, making a fine presentation. I enjoyed what he had to say. I think everybody there did. I think Speaker Gingrich did also. I thought his remarks were appropriate, on target, amusing, and it was a good thing going on. Then, Mr. Speaker, we had a monologue from a gentleman, who I guess is a talk show host, named Don Imus, that I think went well beyond anything that should be tolerated on the public airways.”