Mark Souder: “let me, once again, I want to reiterate, what I have been discussing tonight is not what the rest of the country has…”

“let me, once again, I want to reiterate, what I have been discussing tonight is not what the rest of the country has been discussing this past weekend for the most part. What I have been discussing is what has the earmarks at some level of an incredibly massive cover-up, 116 people who have either taken the fifth amendment that say if they talk to our congressional committee, they could incriminate themselves, or they fled the country or one way or another avoided us being able to subpoena them. That is a grave situation. As the FBI Director said, only in organized mob cases has he seen this. It has made it very difficult for us to go ahead with this investigation. And understand we also have, in addition to this, a separate investigation that the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) is pursuing on the China question and the sale of technology. We have a separate investigation going ahead with the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) looking at Teamsters money and how that got tied up in massive corruption and attempting to influence elections with illegal dollars, not to mention special prosecutors on Harold Ickes, pending on campaign finance, looking at the Vice President of the United States. We have many ongoing investigations. What everybody in this country has been talking about is just a small part. It is inconceivable we are going to resolve this in the next 30 days because this is a massive problem inside this administration.”