Political Quotes

“ladies and gentlemen of the House, this is nearly the last vote we will have on this very significant piece of legislation, the reauthorization of the independent counsel statute. My substitute, in my opinion, makes it a better bill. I am for the concept, I have always been for the concept, I voted for this when it was first presented back in 1978, and I have voted for it in every succeeding time that it has been presented. I think we should have learned something from experience. We should have learned from history how this bill has operated, and now we have an opportunity to sand off the rough edges, an opportunity to fine-tune it, to make it a better law, a more effective law. Madam Chairman, I suggest nobody can accuse me of trying to eviscerate, diminish or demean or weaken this independent counsel law. I ask you to put partisanship aside. I know it is difficult, difficult for all of us, but try to make this a better bill, try to go to school on the experience we have had under the most recent independent counsel operation. This substitute is about reform, congressional reform. It is about accountability, budgetary accountability, and personal, professional accountability of the independent counsel. And it is about due process of law. These are things that ought to concern us mightily.…”