Bob Dole: “I suggest we have been very quiet on this issue, at least this Senator has, since last year. It seems to me, though…”

“I suggest we have been very quiet on this issue, at least this Senator has, since last year. It seems to me, though, that sooner or later Congress is going to have to examine this if we are going to have any credibility ourselves as an institution. We have responsibilities. We cannot pass them all off to the independent counsel. We have not done it in the past. We can come out and give some fine legal argument. The American people do not understand that. We have oversight responsibility. We exercise that responsibility time after time after time, and it seems to me that sooner or later, this is going to become an issue and it should not become an issue. We are not asking for anybody's head, we are just asking for hearings. We are asking for hearings. We are going to be asking our colleagues, why should we not have hearings? The Democrats chair all the committees. They are not going to get out of hand. They control the staff. The Democrats control every agency in town, every Cabinet office, the White House. I do not think it is too much to the let the minority in this case, the Republicans, to explain to the American people, or bring out the facts so the American people can make a judgment. Nobody has made a judgment. We are not about to make a judgment. It is not my purpose to make a judgment. But it is our responsibility to try to obtain the facts.”