Dan Burton

I hope that President Aleman and his finance minister heard what the chairman said tonight.

I encourage all of my colleagues to visit Indianapolis and see this newest jewel of our city and State. It is something that you will not soon forget.

Indiana has a proud tradition of honoring those who have sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom. We must never forget that our freedom is not free.

In the words of Mr. Hodowal, this memorial serves two purposes: 'It's an opportunity to say thanks for the sacrifices [these men] made, and it's a chance to show the next generation what real heroes look like . . . to show that ordinary…

I think that Louis Freeh and the FBI were trying to do the best that they could. They went to the Justice Department four times asking for electronic surveillance on Mr. Wen Ho Lee, the man who was involved in the espionage, or allegedly…

Just a few weeks ago the President denied he had knowledge of any of this, and yet we know that he was briefed by Sandy Berger as far back as 1997. I can not understand why he is saying that. This chart, which I did not get to today, but I…

We found out under Hazel O'Leary, the previous head of the Department of Energy, that she relaxed, cut the budget for security, cut the security force to such a degree that the head of intelligence for the Energy Department was really…

Yes, I would. And I would like to add that the Attorney General has appointed independent counsels for some of the periphery of this administration, but whenever it gets close to the Oval Office or people close to the Oval Office, there is…

Yes, and we have investigated Republicans as well as Democrats. But we need an independent counsel who is not beholden to anybody to get to the bottom of this whole thing.

Yes, and I am happy that the gentleman from Virginia brought that up. The Attorney General said before our committee that she was afraid that if they even gave us a redacted copy where they crossed out certain grand jury material, that…

I do not think I owe the gentleman an apology. First of all, the bill only authorizes that language, authorizes the English provisions in that bill. It does not mandate them, if the gentleman reads that.

The only way we can get the information is to dig through court records or go to the national LSC, and we say we want to go to the local LSC. Now, actually, we are asking for more information than what the gentleman wants us to have, but…

We want to make sure. We want to make sure we are covering the waterfront so that there is no problem and they are not covering up something.

This information, if you really want to get it, you can go to the court records, a cumbersome thing, and it takes a lot of time to dig through records that you do not want to go through, or you can go to the national LSC and get it. What I…

The bottom line is that more detailed information gives us more of an oversight of the actual operation of the local LSC that may be in violation of the current statutes that we pass here in the Congress, and we know those exist.

First of all, I do not think there will be any additional expenses. The records are already there.

The situation right now is if we want information, we have two choices. We can go through all the court records, as the gentleman just mentioned, which is a very cumbersome task, or we can go to the Federal LSC offices. Only 8 percent of…

What I am saying is where there is a violation of Legal Services and we know about it, there ought to be a penalty imposed upon those agencies that are violating the law. Now, if we did that, we would find a lot of people that might take a…

I have here in my hand probably 6 to 10 examples in various States where the legal services Corporations have deliberately violated the laws passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President in April 1996. Now, the reason I…

It is inconceivable to me we would increase the amount of the money going to Legal Services Corporation by $109 million. We were talking about $141 million. You wanted to go to 250. I do not understand why we reward them.

I have in front of me two examples. In August 1996, 4 months after the new rules went into effect, passed by this Congress, the Brooklyn Legal Services Corp stopped the eviction of a woman, even though they found 54 vials of crack cocaine…

We are investigating a possible massive scheme, massive scheme of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money into the U.S. electoral system. We are investigating allegations that the Chinese Government at the highest levels decided to…

I just want to real quickly say that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Lampson] ought to be commended for what he is doing in trying to find missing children. I think that should be an example for every Member of this House, and this shows his…

Let me just end by saying I really and truly feel for my colleagues in California and their constituent, and I hope all of their colleagues paid attention to this special order tonight, because they are right on the money. It is an…

During the debate to which the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Mollohan] refers, it was made very clear that many legal services corporations that did not want to abide by the new rules were forming shell corporations to get around that…