Kendra S. Horn: “I just want to say after living through some of these investigations under both Chairman Clinger and now Chairman…”

“I just want to say after living through some of these investigations under both Chairman Clinger and now Chairman Burton, I did have the idea last year that maybe we need a new Institute of Health at the National Institutes of Health. Its mission would be to test the water that is used on Capitol Hill and in the White House, and do that on a weekly basis and see if any elements in that water have caused the loss of memory that we have heard from so many witnesses when they come before us. People have said that the Roman leadership died because the pipes were filled with lead. There are many private water dispensers in the legislative branch to keep that from happening. We need a lot of trained medical doctors who ought to be studying this memory loss that occurs only within the District of Columbia. Washington is probably the only city in the world where nobody can remember what they did when they made a decision. We, of course, remember. We have roll calls. Apparently they do not have roll calls elsewhere in this city and especially not at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Getting back to Attorney General Reno, a lot of people have forgotten that she gave Independent Counsel Starr a number of additional assignments. That was cleared with the three judge court. The independent counsel, in essence, is an officer of that court. That is why that person is independent.”