Political Quotes

“periodically I report to the Senate on the progress being made on the Louisiana investigation. On May 8, I advised the Senate that the Committee on Rules and Administration was working on a bipartisan investigation into allegations that fraud, irregularities, and other errors affected the outcome of the 1996 election for U.S. Senator from Louisiana--the first such Senate investigation into alleged vote fraud since the early 1950's, almost 45 years ago. Since that time, the committee has secured appropriate office space in New Orleans to meet the needs of the investigation. Our committee counsel, majority and minority together, have also been to Baton Rouge, where they were joined by our investigative teams, headed by Richard Cullen and George Terwilliger from the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, and Robert Bauer and John Hume of the law firm of Perkins Coie. While in Baton Rouge our teams met with Gov. Mike Foster--a Republican, the President of the Senate Randy Ewing, and the Speaker of the House ``H.B.'' Hunt Downer, Jr.--both Democrats, each of whom expressed their full cooperation in the conduct of the Senate's investigation.”