Paul Coverdell: “I want to pay particular compliment to the Senator from Arizona. I believe he has framed the substance of this issue…”

“I want to pay particular compliment to the Senator from Arizona. I believe he has framed the substance of this issue very succinctly, in a way that is most understanding in the phrasing of the questions for which we must resolve. It was exceedingly well done. I want to compliment the Senator from Arizona for his usual form as he deals with this very, very sensitive subject. Mr. President, I want to go back to the Washington Post editorial that appeared on July 3. They point out that we now have three separate inquiries, or investigations into what went wrong between the White House and the FBI. There is the House inquiry, a Senate inquiry, and, of course, the Justice Department has now turned this matter over to Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr. They say: The three probes need to find out if the country has an abuse of Presidential power on its hands or whether it is witnessing yet one more White House staff-administered blow to this President's prestige. Then they go on again to say that we need to separate these probes from the books that are appearing on a regular basis, and I concur with that entirely. It goes on to say: Four days of congressional hearings, however, have yet to adequately explain why hundreds of FBI reports on employees of former Republican administrations ended up in the office of former party operative and now resigned White House personnel security director Craig Livingstone.”