Orrin Hatch: “it befalls me to make a few comments here today concerning why this investigation is so important. Before I do, I want…”

“it befalls me to make a few comments here today concerning why this investigation is so important. Before I do, I want to compliment the Rules Committee and the people on the Rules Committee who have handled this very difficult subject matter and have done it in a credible and responsible way. I also personally believe that no two people could handle this matter better than the chairman and ranking member of the Governmental Affairs Committee. Senator Thompson has had extensive experience in these matters and Senator Glenn is known as an eminently fair and worthy person here in this body. I have total confidence in both of them that they will be fair, they will be thorough, they will be tough, and they will do what is right. We simply have to get to the bottom of this. The American people are concerned about it. Certainly the media has written extensively about these matters. It is incumbent upon the Senate in its oversight capacity to investigate these matters fairly and thoroughly. As we take up Senate Resolution 39 today, I would like to just take a few minutes to emphasize one major point: That there is a serious number of very, very troubling matters to investigate, simply at the very core of Senators Thompson's and Glenn's inquiry.”