Frank Pallone: “I think the issue is campaign finance reform. What is happening here with this funding resolution is essentially that…”

“I think the issue is campaign finance reform. What is happening here with this funding resolution is essentially that the Republican leadership is coming up with a great diversionary tactic where they will spend a year or perhaps 2 years at great expense to the taxpayers, essentially to do a probe of the White House, but at the same time they are not willing to open up this investigation to Democrats and Republicans in Congress. There is no question in my mind about why this is happening. For one, we have the chairman of the committee, the chairman of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, who should be stepping aside. Many of the newspapers, the Washington Post: 'Mr. Burton Should Step Aside.' But he does not want to open it up to a full investigation that would look at congressional campaign practices, because the first person they would have to investigate is himself. So do not tell me that campaign finance reform is not the issue. They do not want to bring up the issue of campaign finance reform.”