Mark Souder: “I think that as the gentleman from Michigan and I both would state unequivocally, one of the problems is that we have…”

“I think that as the gentleman from Michigan and I both would state unequivocally, one of the problems is that we have too much power in Washington because when you have that much power there is going to be a temptation to cheat. But even given that, what we have seen in his investigation, what we have seen in this investigation is not everybody does this. I hear all the time, ``Well, everybody in Washington is corrupt.'' They are not. There are too many decisions made that are influenced by money in this town. There are too many decisions made out of fear for the next political election. What we are seeing gradually unfold over the last few years is something that in scale we have never seen before. We have not seen the amount of illegal foreign dollars moving in, apparently tied to specific decisions. We have not seen the massive scale laundering going from multiple countries even in. We have not seen this many Cabinet members. I mean even under Harding we were talking three. Going with special prosecutors, and even leading up into higher and higher levels of this administration. We do not know where it ends. We are not likely to find out very soon. But we have an obligation in this Congress.”