Scott Klug: “let me tell you how fascinating it is for me to see you in your role tonight, and also see my good friend, the gentleman…”

“let me tell you how fascinating it is for me to see you in your role tonight, and also see my good friend, the gentleman from California, Frank Riggs, back here after a 2-year absence because it was 4 years ago that Frank and I and five other freshmen blew the whistle on the House bank and then 3 years ago we blew the whistle on the House post office. The interesting thing, Mr. Speaker, is that after 4 years and 3 years respectively we still have not seen a number of internal documents from either of those investigations, taxpayer funded investigations of taxpayer operations. My colleague, the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer], says this is all behind us, but the honest answer is we do not know if it is behind us because for decades these books simply have not been audited, nor have we had the access to those very documents. Former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, now facing charges connected to the stationery store, has an intriguing defense. He says he was not the only Congressman who misused the stationery store and bought chairs and champagne buckets and other things, all with public money and all personal gifts. And you know his defense team might be right because we do not know, but after this audit is done, we will know, and when we know, you will know too.”