Bart Stupak: “A couple of things. You agreed on the point that we were on some technicalities, but when you are doing investigations…”

“A couple of things. You agreed on the point that we were on some technicalities, but when you are doing investigations like this, or discussions, technicalities, truth has to prevail over technicalities. In the last comments of gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth), you know he is talking about all these other things, but the end does not justify the means. We have the Constitution here. We have an oath of office. We have a Bill of Rights. We have a Privacy Act. The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) was warned not to release those things, and he still did. There the end is trying to justify the means, and you cannot do that. You cannot trample constitutional safeguards to make your points, whatever they may be. I do not think the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) or the gentlewoman from Maryland (Mrs. Morella) or the gentleman from California (Mr. Horn) or any others would have done that when they get a letter from the AG saying, this is highly sensitive, do not do that. I do not believe we would have been reading about these tapes in the paper. I think they are sensitive to those things. I do not think there is a personal agenda with these others, which the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) has more or less admitted to. That is what loses credibility in our eyes and the eyes of the American people.”