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Cass Ballenger: “Yesterday Attorney General Janet Reno recommended appointing an independent special counsel to investigate the Secretary…”

On the recordMarch 15, 1995
Yesterday Attorney General Janet Reno recommended appointing an independent special counsel to investigate the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros. It seems that Secretary Cisneros may have lied to the FBI during his background check regarding payments he has made over the years to his mistress. Reports suggest that the payments he made to his mistress are much larger than he originally reported to the FBI. Mr. Speaker, let us review the names of President Clinton's closest advisers that have resigned or are under a cloud of suspicion: Jocelyn Elders, Mike Espy, Les Aspin, Webster Hubbell, Robert Altman, Ron Brown, and now Henry Cisneros. Mr. Speaker, who is next? It is no wonder the President and his Democrat colleagues are spending so much time distorting the facts of our Contract With America. They have no ideas of their own, and their own administration is in a shambles.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina
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Addressing the investigation of Secretary Henry Cisneros and the administration's controversies.

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