Jim Sensenbrenner: “Mr. Speaker, the question before us in this motion to recommit is whether we should make ourselves slaves to the clock…”

“Mr. Speaker, the question before us in this motion to recommit is whether we should make ourselves slaves to the clock or attempt to find out the truth. And let there be no mistake about it, nobody's conduct is under investigation here but that of the President of the United States. And if he had not committed those things that the allegations have sent forth to us by the Independent Counsel, we would not be faced with discharging our awesome constitutional responsibilities. This should not be a race against the clock. And do not take my word for it, take the word of a respected senior Democratic Member on the other side of the aisle, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Lee Hamilton), who said yesterday, 'I have had a lot of experience with investigations. Time limits create large incentives for delay.' Do not give anybody an incentive to delay and string this out by establishing an arbitrary time limit. Now, my friends on the other side of the aisle have said that this will be a never-ending investigation. They have not read the twentieth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”