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Campaign Finance Improprieties and Possible Violations of Law Hearing Committee on Government Reform and Oversight House of Repr CAMPAIGN FINANCE IMPROPRIETIES AND POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF LAW HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 8, 1997 Serial No. 105–50 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 44–527 CC WASHINGTON : 1997 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 0ct 02 2002 14:16 Oct 08, 2002 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 W:\DISC\44527 44527 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York HENRY A. WAXMAN, California J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois TOM LANTOS, California CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut MAJOR R. OWENS, New York STEVEN SCHIFF, New Mexico EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York CHRISTOPHER COX, California PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida GARY A. CONDIT, California JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York STEPHEN HORN, California THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin JOHN L. MICA, Florida ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington, THOMAS M. DAVIS, Virginia DC DAVID M. MCINTOSH, Indiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois MARSHALL ‘‘MARK’’ SANFORD, South JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts Carolina JIM TURNER, Texas JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine PETE SESSIONS, Texas HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee MICHAEL PAPPAS, New Jersey ——— VINCE SNOWBARGER, Kansas BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont BOB BARR, Georgia (Independent) ROB PORTMAN, Ohio KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director RICHARD D. BENNETT, Chief Counsel JUDITH MCCOY, Chief Clerk PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate 0ct 02 2002 14:16 Oct 08, 2002 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44527 44527 C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on October 8, 1997 ............................................................................ 1 Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by: Allen, Hon. Thomas H., a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine, prepared statement of .................................................................. 332 Barrett, Hon. Thomas M., a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin, prepared statement of ........................................................... 381 Burton, Hon. Dan, a Representative in Congress from the State of Indi- ana: Letter dated October 6, 1997 .................................................................... 4 Prepared statement of ............................................................................... 14 Condit, Hon. Gary A., a Representative in Congress from the State of California, prepared statement of ................................................................ 364 Cummings, Hon. Elijah E., a Representative in Congress from the State of Maryland, prepared statement of ............................................................ 390 Davis, Hon. Danny K., a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, prepared statement of ................................................................ 418 Davis, Hon. Thomas M., a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, prepared statement of .............................................................. 325 Ford, Hon. Harold E., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Tennessee, prepared statement of ........................................................... 436 Kanjorski, Hon. Paul E., a Representative in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, prepared statement of ...................................................... 354 Lantos, Hon. Tom, a Representative in Congress from the State of Cali- fornia, Republican fundraising letters press packet .................................. 340 Mica, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, information concerning committee expenses ................................ 393 Portman, Hon. Rob, a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio, prepared statement of ........................................................................ 330 Ros-Lehtinen, Hon. Ileana, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, lyrics to a song ............................................................................ 377 Sanders, Hon. Bernard, a Representative in Congress from the State of Vermont, prepared statement of .............................................................. 368 Schiff, Hon. Steven, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Mexico, prepared statement of ............................................................ 324 Sessions, Hon. Pete, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, prepared statement of ....................................................................... 432 Shays, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State of Connecticut, prepared statement of ........................................................ 322 Towns, Hon. Edolphus, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, prepared statement of ........................................................... 399 Turner, Hon. Jim, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, prepared statement of ................................................................................... 427 Waxman, Hon. Henry A., a Representative in Congress from the State of California: Letters exchanged regarding the investigation ...................................... 50 Prepared statement of ............................................................................... 48 (III) VerDate 0ct 02 2002 14:16 Oct 08, 2002 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44527 44527 VerDate 0ct 02 2002 14:16 Oct 08, 2002 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44527 44527 CAMPAIGN FINANCE IMPROPRIETIES AND POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF LAW WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1997 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:10 a.m., in room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Dan Burton (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Burton, Gilman, Hastert, Morella, Shays, Cox, Ros-Lehtinen, McHugh, Horn, Mica, Davis of Virginia, McIntosh, Souder, Shadegg, LaTourette, Sununu, Pappas, Snow- barger, Barr, Portman, Waxman, Lantos, Owens, Towns, Kan- jorski, Condit, Sanders, Maloney, Barrett, Norton, Fattah, Cummings, Kucinich, Blagojevich, Davis of Illinois, Tierney, Turn- er, Allen, and Ford. Staff present: Kevin Binger, staff director; Richard Bennett, chief counsel; Dan Moll, deputy staff director; Judith McCoy; chief clerk; Teresa Austin, assistant clerk/calender clerk; Robin Butler, office manager; William Moschella, deputy counsel and parliamentarian; Will Dwyer, director of communications; Ashley Williams, deputy director of communications; Barbara Comstock, chief investigative counsel; Tim Griffin, Robert Rohrbaugh, Jim Wilson, and Uttam Dhillon, senior investigative counsels; Dave Bossie, oversight coor- dinator; Phil Larsen, investigative consultant; Kristi Remington, Alicemary Leach, Bill Hanka, and David Kass, investigative coun- sels; John Irving and Jason Foster, investigators; Carolyn Pritts, administrative investigative assistant; David Jones and John Mastranadi, investigative staff assistants; Phil Schiliro, minority staff director; Phil Barnett, minority chief counsel; Agnieszka Fryszman, Elizabeth Mundinger, Kristin Amerling, Andrew McLaughlin, and David Sadkin, minority counsels; Ellen Rayner, minority chief clerk; Jean Gosa, minority staff assistant; and Sheri- dan Pauker, minority research assistant. Mr. BURTON. The Committee on Government Reform and Over- sight will come to order. Could we have the doors closed, please, and could everyone take their seats? Today, we are going to start our investigation with opening state- ments from both the majority and minority sides of the aisle. We will try to get through these in an expeditious manner. I would like for Members, if at all possible, to keep their statements to 5 min- utes. (1) VerDate 0ct 02 2002 14:16 Oct 08, 2002 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 W:\DISC\44527 44527 2 I hope to be one of the few who violates that rule, but as the chairman I will use my prerogative as chairman to go into a little bit more detail than others may be able to. As we begin these hearings, we are confronted with questions in- volving the basic integrity of our Democratic electoral process. We must address serious questions regarding the respect that this White House has for legitimate oversight and even the criminal justice system. Before we begin our opening statements today, I would like to comment on the recently released White House tapes. In the past few days, it has come to light that videotapes of White House cof- fees were hidden from this committee, the Senate and the Justice Department, despite numerous subpoenas which have been out- standing. Ours was outstanding for 7 months. Back in March of this year, we subpoenaed these records. We specifically asked for videotapes and audiotapes, unedited. Let’s look at the language that’s on the screen.
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