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Joe Pitts: it is time for a nursery rhyme for the kids in the White House: ``Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great…

On the recordOctober 14, 1998
it is time for a nursery rhyme for the kids in the White House: ``Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.'' Mr. Speaker, back when this nursery rhyme was written, when kings were sovereign and people were subjects, it was a revolutionary concept to say that we the people are sovereign and that government officials are subject to the rule of law like all other citizens. In America, the President is not a king. In America, no man has more rights because he has more money, more property or higher position. All are equal before the law. All are subject to the law. And when a man violates the law, he must answer to the law and not opinion polls. ``And all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.'' Today all the king's men are still trying to put Humpty back together in one piece, but falling and breaking the law has consequences in America even for a man who thinks he is above the law.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Addressing the rule of law and accountability for government officials.

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