Henry Hyde said "I am trying to make this a workable provision. Under the law that we are about to reauthorize, the preliminary investigation threshold question was too low. I want to raise that threshold, not lower it. I do not want political manipulation of the independent counsel law, nor the Office of Attorney General. I want the trigger, the threshold of the preliminary investigation, not to have to happen unless there is specific evidence from a credible source of a violation of a Federal law. The complicated machinery of the independent counsel law should not get underway unless there is real evidence of possible wrongdoing. I am simply raising the threshold." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 10, 1994

I am trying to make this a workable provision. Under the law that we are about to reauthorize, the preliminary investigation threshold question was too low. I want to raise that threshold, not lower it. I do not want political manipulation of the independent counsel law, nor the Office of Attorney General. I want the trigger, the threshold of the preliminary investigation, not to have to happen unless there is specific evidence from a credible source of a violation of a Federal law. The complicated machinery of the independent counsel law should not get underway unless there is real evidence of possible wrongdoing. I am simply raising the threshold.

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Henry Hyde

Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

The speaker addresses concerns about the threshold for preliminary investigations under the independent counsel law.

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