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Thomas M. Barrett: “That is fine. It is over. For me, it is over in the committee. When you have a committee chair that uses a term, calls…”

On the recordMay 12, 1998
That is fine. It is over. For me, it is over in the committee. When you have a committee chair that uses a term, calls the President a term that I think both of you gentlemen would wash out your kids' mouth with soap and says he is out to get the President, I think it flunks the fairness test. That is what it is. It has flunked the fairness test, and it has flunked the credibility test.
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Thomas M. Barrett
Wisconsin

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Addressing concerns about fairness and credibility in a committee's treatment of the President.

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