July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8589 early in August. The President prom- upper Chamber, which I sometimes DEA, fantastic since its inception, ised to end welfare as we know it but love to call the House of Lords, but it which was since I have been a Con- has vetoes two previous welfare reform certainly is coequal with us. Superior gressman. The ATF, a lot of those peo- bills. in foreign affairs and ratifying treaties, ple wanted to join the FBI first. So We have accommodated his objec- but we are superior, and it was by de- when the FBI came in, I had ATF tions by separating Medicaid reform sign, on issues like money, taxation, agents call me on the quiet and they from the welfare reform. Now it is time raising taxes. And all spending bills said, we thought the FBI was going to to seize the opportunity to replace the originate in the House. come in and rescue us, and they made welfare system with work, to replace So that rule XVIII is to protect the it even worse. By that time we did not dependency with responsibility. We are camaraderie, what we call comity. I do want a fire in the compound or to press not simply trying to save money here, not use that word very much because, religious zealots to the breaking point we are trying to save people, especially no matter how hard you hit the T, it where a few men destroy their women kids, from a lifetime of poverty. sounds like you are saying comedy to and children on their ego. Carpe diem, Mr. President. Seize the the average American. But comity She should have resigned over that. I day. means goodwill and camaraderie and it still believe that. I still believe her f keeps us sane with one another in the presence cripples the agencies under two Chambers when we have to come her, including the FBI. I think what is BOOKS ON BILL CLINTON together in conference, which we will so tragic here is that she was not in The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. be doing for the next 2 or 3 months on command of the agency at that time. PETRI). Under the Speaker’s announced the major 13 major appropriations We all know that she had to answer, policy of May 12, 1995, the gentleman bills. even though she did not know it, to from California [Mr. DORNAN] is recog- We are way ahead of the Senate, as Webster Hubbell. He, the man who is? nized for 60 minutes as the designee of usual, because the money bills start Jail now, No. 2 at Justice. He created a the majority leader. here. But we cranked into this protec- title for himself. That is in some of Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, good tive rule XVIII the Vice President, AL these books I am about to show you. Pressing rule XVIII to the outer lim- afternoon. This is not my bag to go to GORE, and whoever is sitting in the its. the airport. This is a show and tell spe- White House. I watched my friend of I will try to put these in order. And cial order. fifty-eight, combat Navy hero, and a It is 10 minutes to 1 in Chicago. It is the newest one, Unlimited Access, by grandfather of 14 children and a won- an FBI agent, has a bibliography in the 10 minutes to noon in Denver. It is only derful, trustworthy friend, George 10 minutes to 11 in Orange County, in back with books I never even heard of. Bush. I watched that President of the I hope I did not forget some. My wife is Los Angeles and Seattle. Still the United States, as he was sitting Presi- reading Blood Sport, by James T. shank of the morning in Hawaii. And in dent, trashed in the well regularly Stewart. Guam it is tomorrow. I have people from the Democratic lectern. So, let us see, what is the first book that write to me from Guam where I watched Ronald Reagan hit some- I read on Bill Clinton? On the Make. America’s day begins. I just spoke to a times over the edge with words taken That title alone might push rule XVIII. whole bunch of students outside. They down and withdrawn. But we have a Before the Parliamentarian thinks said: Why does the news media still tripartite system of Government here, about it, it means seducing the voters persist in saying that those of us on checks and balances. As I said on this with a smooth line. All politicians like both sides of the aisle who do special floor a few days ago, I can just tear to think about that. It is by a lady orders, 5 minutes or 1 hour or 1 minute, into any one of the Supreme Court Jus- journalist without peer in the great why do they persist in saying that we tice. I can shred Hazel O’Leary’s ter- State of Arkansas. A great State, 23 are speaking to an empty Chamber? I rible stewardship and horrible squan- Medal of Honor winners. I campaigned see 10 people, I see 10, 20, 30, 40 in the dering of taxpayers’ dollars renting a in seven towns last year for one of our gallery. A few more over here. I see Madonna luxury jet that Madonna had great Congressmen down there, one of some more staffers and chief staffers used to party around the world to take our two, soon to be three, Republicans. back there. There are 1,300,000 people hundreds of staffers around the world And this book, On the Make, by Mere- watching. in expensive hotel suites and all run- dith Oakley, the Rise of Bill Clinton, is Is that not right, Mr. GUTKNECHT, ning up credit cards. the subtitle, takes you back to one of who is going to be elected by a land- I can do anything I want to show the only two Federal races Mr. Clinton slide in his great district. And may I do that I do not think she or Bruce Bab- has been in, and he lost it. radio spots for you, as many as you bitt or anybody should have a Cabinet He tried to take on a combat veteran want. May you put them all on Rush seat. I thought Janet Reno, and this who flew the gooney bird over the Limbaugh’s show. A million people are would have definitely happened in hump in the China-Burma-India thea- listening to me right now. Great Britain, I thought Janet Reno, a ter, a great Congressman. I served with Let me get serious. This case is what very nice lady, should have resigned him over a decade, J. P. Hammer- I am taking on the road as head of a after 20 children and several pregnant schmidt, in 1974. He did not wipe out Bob Dole peace task force. I am not mothers were suffocated to death. that World War II great veteran. But it going to read the titles until I get Hopefully they were not burned to put him on the map. And 2 years later them in chronological order here. This death. But as far as I know, they were in 1976—I cannot go to surgery; pardon is turning into a cottage industry of all suffocated to death, little faces me, I had my beeper on—2 years later, books on Bill Clinton. could not have a gas mask, in the Waco he was the Attorney General at 30 And respecting rule XVIII of the government tragedy. years of age. And 2 years after that, he House, which I intend to change after I would never, ever have had them was the Governor of the great State of the election, if we are in the majority, come out of my mouth, and I resented Arkansas, at 32 years of age. And 2 and I will explain rule XVIII. It keeps it, to call any good law enforcement years after that, he was defeated Gov- us from going for one another’s throats person who is poorly led any kind of a ernor at 34 years of age. around here. It implores us to say, will thug, let alone use military terms that Then the other books pick up the the distinguished and honorable and would harken up the image of the Ge- story. But this takes him from his first wonderful Member yield. And if you stapo, but that was a disaster and race and before his involvement in the just cannot get that out of your throat, heads rolled. People were fired, then McGovern campaign with Betsy you at least have to say, will the Mem- rehired. A lot of agents quit in disgust. Wright, chief cook and bottle washer ber from Massachusetts yield. That is A lot of those guys tried to join the and suppressor of scandals and hirer of as mean as we can get. FBI first, and the FBI did not do much Jack Palladino, who had thousands of We get our words taken down if it better at Ruby Ridge. Besides, the DEA dollars of campaign money, intimi- gets too rough and if we start to talk mess, my favorite agency of all law en- dated and shut up people on the cam- about something they are doing in the forcement agencies, firearms, Alcohol, paign trail to grease the path for Clin- Chamber that likes to call itself the Tobacco and Firearms, ATF. ton to the White House. H8590 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 26, 1996 On the Make by Meredith Oakley. one of America’s three prominent lib- White House,’’ from another award- The next one that came out that I eral papers of record, and there are no winning author. came across was the incomparable Pul- conservative national papers, just our Then there was a slight gap, and I got itzer Price-winning Bob Woodward’s great Washington Times inside the hold of ‘‘Clinton Confidential’’ by a ter- book, The Agenda. In this book he Beltway, which is in the top eight, but rific writer, George Carpozi, Jr., bigger talks about Clinton having volcanic the New York Times, the Washington than the prior three, equal in size to eruptions where lava flows out of the Post, and the L.A. Times, arguably in Meredith Oakley’s ‘‘On the Make.’’ I top of his head and that he treated that order; I put the L.A. Times first, told him after the fact I did not like George Stephanopoulos like an abused they have more foreign correspondents, his title, ‘‘Clinton Confidential: The spouse. Number 2. and it is an easier to read paper with Climb to Power.’’ I said ‘‘confidential’’ I find out that there are books in be- better print; it does not come off on is a tabloid-type name. I said why did tween here that I did not know about. your hands like the Post. you not just name it, George, ‘‘Clinton: Then I come across, and in this book But this book was serialized on the The Climb to Power’’? but in here he it has Mr. Clinton in an argument with front page of the Washington Post: broke the code on the trip to Moscow a friend of mine who is a Democratic ‘‘First in his Class,’’ by David that I, as an U.S. Congressman under a Senator, BOB KERREY, Medal of Honor Maraniss. And I read this and could not Republican President, George Bush, recipient, chastised me in the hall the believe some of the stories in there. I talking to FBI and Foreign Service other day and told me to lose 10 will not discuss them until I think people, no one had the information pounds. These ex-Navy Seals are tough, more about pushing the envelope here. that he found in this book on why Clin- Mr. Speaker. And started pulling on The next book I read was ‘‘Inside the ton went to Copenhagen, to Stock- White House.’’ Now, this did not in- my coat. BOB KERREY is yelled at by holm, Sweden, to Helsinki, to Lenin- clude just Mr. Clinton. This included the President with the ultimate, by grad, to Moscow, and stayed with the several Presidents. It is by the best- Mr. Clinton with the ultimate Anglo- founding member’s family of the Com- selling author of ‘‘The FBI;’’ that is on Saxon obscenity on page 267, I think. munist Party in Prague, Czecho- my bookshelves, and I skip read it, and And I turned the page, expecting a slovakia. George Carpozi does it. He ‘‘Inside the CIA,’’ which I slowly read. Navy Seal to fire back at him. Instead, has written fantastic books on Sen- Those are Ronald Kessler’s two other he keeps his cool and says that his re- ators, and on past Presidents, on the books, ‘‘FBI,’’ ‘‘Inside the CIA.’’ It says sponsibility is to the voters of Ne- Kennedys. I think he lives on Long Is- has a subtitle, this is ‘‘Inside the White braska before anything else. land. And his may be coming out in House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Blank you, Clinton yelled. Senator pocket book. That one my wife grabbed Presidents and the Secrets of the KERREY always tried to be respectful of Worlds Most Powerful Institution.’’ He for me and finished before I was able to the Commander in Chief, but he also interviewed cooks in the White House. read it. wanted to defend himself. And he con- Then there is a long gap, and I was I think we should call them chefs. He tinued shouting back. Clinton pressed not aware of some other books coming interviewed valets, a term that Presi- on two themes. He just had to have out until I got hold of ‘‘Unlimited Ac- dents do not like to hear, but Roo- cess’’ until ‘‘Blood Sport’’ comes out. KERREY’s vote. sevelt, President Franklin Roosevelt, ‘‘Blood Sport’’ is by James B. Stewart. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE needed a valet. The man was in a He was brought into the White House. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- wheelchair, was overcoming, as he said tleman will suspend. at the lectern just below you, Mr. The subtitle is ‘‘The President and his The Chair thinks the gentleman re- Speaker: Adversaries.’’ He was brought into the ferred to the rules of the House several ‘‘I’m sorry I’m late to a State of the White House; let me give his creden- times and knows that it is not in order Union Message. But you will recall I tials. Author of ‘‘Den of Thieves’’ and to refer to the President’s personal have 10 pounds of iron on my legs,’’ the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. character even if one is reading mate- only reference he ever made publicly to Now, if I am pushing the rule here, rial. his polio wounds that kept him in a Mr. Speaker, I have got three out of six The Chair thinks the gentleman is wheelchair all of his life. are Pulitzer Prize winners, and getting pretty close to, if not over, the So when you talk to the valets, the Meredith’s is the winner of other line as far as being personally offensive housekeepers, the cooks and get the in- awards. All of them have been best- to the Chief Executive of the country. side story, I cannot quote anything sellers. Mr. DORNAN. We have 103 days to from this book about both the Clintons James T. Stewart comes into the change American history, Mr. Speaker. in the White House, although I could White House, by Hillary Clinton staff- I will ask the Chair to refer to the Par- do it to Hillary, and as I said, and the ers, to clear up the Whitewater confu- liamentarians. Parliamentarians know this, I choose sion and to write a good book, as a Pul- These are books out there on the not to attack Mrs. Hillary on this itzer Prize winner, establishing their marketplace. I know there are prob- House floor. Her power all comes from innocence. He starts doing research, ably some favorable books out there. I her husband. She was elected to noth- and when he starts getting close to the have never heard of them. ing, and he warned us, he said you will truth, the door starts slamming in his face, and finally he did the same thing b 1400 get two for one if you elect me. She will have power. There must have been that the author of the book on the These books are either objective, and deals cut because after the ‘‘60 Min- Green Beret; his name will come to me, that is certainly what the Woodward utes’’ show on January 26, 1992, every- Joe McGuinness; the Green Beret doc- book is, or very critical. But it is im- body knew that his entire future career tor who had murdered his wife and portant to our country’s future, and I to ever get elected dog catcher and children and is still in prison for it, he am going to press on and have you and Govenor again was in the palm of her started to write a book declaring the the Parliamentarians listen closely. I hand. Whatever she did on that show or innocence of that Army doctor. I am will speed it up and go through titles. from that moment forward would de- not going to use that Army doctor’s I am already past the roughest title, termine if he would ever hold elective name because he is in prison and his ‘‘On the Make.’’ ‘‘The Agenda’’ is the office again, because he had already family has changed their name, and simple title, and I will lay out the ti- broken his promise he would not run they have a life, and it has been a tles. again as Governor. movie, been a TV movie. Same guy, Not selling books; these are books So I could quote Mrs. Clinton in this Gary something, that played Custer, that I own and I have read. book, but I will not, because if I quoted played him very effectively. The next one has a positive title that her in the context of being his wife, I In the middle of researching the I read. It is called ‘‘First in his Class.’’ cannot quote anything on him because book, Joe McGuinness breaks off with But that does not mean he graduated it absolutely would go over the line on the doctor who already has been found first in his class, ever. It is by David rule XVIII. guilty and is in prison, and writes the Maraniss, also the winner of a Pulitzer But the title, and since there are definitive book that this guy did it try- Prize, a top Washington Post reporter, other Presidents in here, ‘‘Inside The ing to blame it on imaginary hippies, July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8591 and he is still in jail, and that was so the Senate from the White House, she firm the victory for the Doles, and Bob much for hiring Joe McGuinness, an- ran the office while he went to prison Dole nor Elizabeth have been running other, I think, Joseph Pulitzer Prize for a few minutes until Clinton par- around saying you get two for one. winner to try and clear you. doned him for cocaine. It appears David There are seven of them. Here comes I would suggest to guilty people in Lassiter paid off the President’s half ‘‘Unlimited Access: An FBI agent in- prison, if you ever want to get out brother’s cocaine debts to organized side the Clinton White House.’’ Mr. after 30 or 40 years, do not hire honest crime. Speaker, if I knew Gary Aldrich, and I reporters like James B. Stewart and If someone has a different take on will meet him one of these days, I expect them not to find the truth and that, call me here at the capital. would say, FBI Agent Aldrich, did you to write lies and cover you up. Blood Sport, James B. Stewart, best succumb to your publisher’s request to So James T. Stewart writes the de- seller, has not come out in paper back put in a unsubstantiated wild rumor finitive book on Whitewater, called yet. about a certain U.S. President hiding ‘‘Blood Sport,’’ and I am going to And then I get, well, these two books in automobiles under blankets when make, not a confession, but an admis- came out the same week: Unlimited there was nothing to substantiate it or sion that I am only that far because Access by an FBI agent, subtitle: ‘‘A to involve the newest and maybe the my wife took it away from me, and FBI Agent Inside The Clinton White biggest hotel in the core of Washing- Whitewater is complex, like the early House,’’ Gary Aldrich. I read the re- ton, DC., the flagship of the great fa- days of Watergate. It is not a fast read. views on that. A few days later ‘‘The ther and son—father now gone to heav- It is not exciting stuff. It does not have Choice,’’ Bob Woodward; so of these en—Marriott line of hotels, the J.W. much to read in the airport in here, it eight books Woodward has two, Wood- Marriott Hotel, named after the found- does not have much of the Thomases or ward’s book, ‘‘The Choice,’’ comes out. er? the other Thomasson or the guy who I send for them both, and they arrive b 1415 was running cocaine to everybody in the same day. I am just starting ‘‘The He apparently started putting sand- the structure, cut it off right under Choice.’’ Cannot give you a review on wiches on airplanes out here from a lit- Clinton. Everybody below Clinton and that one, but I hear it is very fair to tle restaurant next to National Air- all of his best friends were into some Bob Dole and not all that subjective on port, and turned it into a worldwide kind of cocaine scam here, and the guy Clinton, that it is objective on both, Marriott classy hotel operation. Why that was doing it was pardoned by Clin- and somebody told me if the whole Na- involve the J.W. Marriott in a lot of ru- ton and put in a halfway house, and he tion read this book and disregarded po- mors when it was not substantiated? paid off—I cannot remove this one—or lemical skills, disregarded crying in Because that mistake, and I will bet I am allowed to tariff Roger Clinton— public—I have cried in public; so has he knows it was a mistake, and I will he paid off Roger Clinton’s drug debt, Bob Dole; but we do not make a habit bet the publishers know it was a mis- and I underlined that once in the L.A. of it like somebody else I am looking take, that mistake caused a lot of lib- Times and passed it to my wife to read, at. eral journalists who I like and a lot of and she said you should have pointed If they disregarded all of the surface conservative journalists who were fair, this out to me. Why? She said, Roger television imagery the way Democrats like George Will, they had to trash the Clinton’s cocaine debt. And I said, used to beg us to look aside from Ron- book, because everybody focused in on why? It says this friend of Clinton that ald Reagan’s just commanding de- the excitement of a U.S. President he pardoned paid off his drug debt, and meanor; they did not know about his evading the Secret Service and slipping she says—Lassiter is his name—and she heart, that it matched his intellect. out. says, well, to whom was that debt His heart and his communication skill I had read that there are people owed? To the FBI? Was he paying off were a match. They synched up; what who—the Secret Service has an expres- his court trial costs? No, we taxpayers you saw was what you got, an anti- sion, hogs in the tunnel. It does not pay that, or in this case, State case, Communist, ex-Democrat who believed mean anything mean about people’s the good taxpayers and the families of in smaller government and paying your eating habits, it means Razorbacks, those 23 Medal of Honor winners in the debts, and when somebody kills two Arkansas Razorbacks in the tunnel, State of Arkansas and my friend, Carl American sergeants, Goines and Ford, the tunnel between the White House Eugene Holmes and his wife, Irene, two Specialist Fifth Class, in the and the Treasury Department built in their tax dollars. That is the colonel LaBelle disco April 5, 1986. The planes World War II. It means cover them, that was deceived and trampled upon were in the air to Libya 9 days later. protect them. Do not let them get his honor, the Bataan death march sur- Ronald Reagan said you cannot hide. away. The people who told me this first- vivor and was nominated for the Con- There was a man of his word who, al- hand did not necessarily mean, they gressional Medal of Honor, not enough though he had not seen combat because just smiled, that there was anybody witnesses, so he gets the most guy get- he was the father of three kids and was near the top, at the very top. They just ting it, the Distinguished Service over 30 years of age, had turned 30 a said hogs in the tunnel means the tun- month, a year before Pearl Harbor, Cross. It was Colonel Holmes and Irene nel is being used between the White turned 31 on February 6 of 1942. So peo- Holmes who had to pay the tax bill for House and the Treasury Department. Roger Clinton’s cocaine trial. So to ple, Democrats say, well, Reagan did If Mr. Gary Aldrich, an honorable whom was the debt owed? And my wife not serve. No, Reagan was not at Ox- FBI agent, and I will tell you somebody said was it owed to drug dealers? ford in his early twenties getting the else who succumbed to this; a friend of That is worthy of a big long pause: third request from Uncle Sam: I want mine, Lt. Col. Ollie North. His publish- Sally Dornan says to me, did David you. Reagan volunteered and did wear ers told him, your book will boom over Lassiter pay off Roger Clinton, the the uniform. How many times did I the top if you say that Ronald Reagan President’s only brother? He has no sis- hear in that well or on television? At knew all about the Contra arms deal ters. Well, he has got half brothers least Jeff Greenfield corrected himself, with Iran. around, and he called them on the that Reagan never wore the uniform. Ollie’s book came out. It was a best- phone and then would not even invite He served in the Army Air Corps and seller. It was very exciting. But Nancy him to the White House. He denies was a National Guard cavalry officer Reagan, my friend, knew that her hus- them in this essence: his only brother, before that. If we had gone to war in band did not know the details of the and that is a half brother. And I said, 1934, 1935 or 1936, Ronald Reagan could Contra arms deal. She knew he called Sally, I am going to check this out. have been killed in combat. He was a the Contras freedom fighters and he Guess what? David Lassiter and loyal son of Dixon, Illinois. was trying to break the code in Iran, Patsy Thomasson, who is head of per- Now, ‘‘The Choice,’’ to come back to and end the deadly growth of religious, sonnel at the White House or some- my first thought on this, if everybody notice I am not saying Islamic, I have thing, or head of the administration at in America read this book, people tell a lot of Islamic friends, religious fanat- the White House, testified on the Sen- me Bob Dole would win in a landslide. icism; it happens in every faith. It hap- ate several times, faulty memory like So there is much material in here on pened in my faith in Spain, at one pe- everybody who has testified here or at Hillary and Elizabeth that would con- riod. H8592 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 26, 1996

He was trying to deal, at the Com- was born, but you cannot touch cocaine He said, BOB, Rockefeller and I worked mander-in-Chief level, with some very and serve in the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, together on this committee, me as tough problems, including the afore- or the aforementioned Alcohol, To- Governor, and he was a Governor in mentioned bombing of terrorist camps bacco, and Firearms, but you can serve New York; two Governors, the biggest outside of Benghazi, Tripoli. But when in the White House and be in a drug States, I overtook him with the biggest my pal Ollie succumbed, in the non- rehab program. State during that period. He said, we military, he had never done this in uni- Now guess who is involved in this worked together on this committee to form, Ronald Reagan probably knew, drug use and in the rehab program? analyze the CIA. He was terrific on the he said, about the Contra arms deal, to Scott Livingstone. And I am hearing intelligence issues, and he helped save sell books, it enraged, properly, Nancy today that he lobbied to control the the honor of the CIA. Reagan; all wives are protective. Nancy nuclear weapons systems code brief- I said, what does that do to my core set the standard for that kind of loy- case, affectionately called ‘‘the foot- base? I am not a country club Repub- alty. ball,’’ or in Hollywood parlance, the lican. He said, that is your call, and And when Ollie went to run for the red button, which does not make much that is the end of the good things I can Senate, at the worst possible time, sense. say about my pal Rocky. The next about 10 days out, in a hot primary be- The White House drug scandal is a thing I know, the Republican party tween Ollie North and the incumbent, nightmare. It is all in here. And how do says, if you are not enthusiastic about Chuck Robb, two Marines duking it liberal talk shows hosts dismiss the 95 having him, then we will not send him. out, Nancy Reagan, and she did not ini- percent of this book that is dynamite He did not come to campaign for me. tiate it, she was in a hotel lobby, I re- and valuable, and most of it confirm- My staff did not revolt. They are not member, or a hotel ballroom that was able? They first deflect you with the extremists, just good solid fiscal Re- empty, being interviewed by somebody silliness of putting in this rumor about publicans that were looking at the fis- for PBS or one of the networks, and the President’s sneaking out under cal mess in New York, so he never she said, used tough words, I believe blankets in cars and Bruce Lindsey at came out for me. But Ronald Reagan she said ‘‘That’s a lie.’’ Bingo, it just the wheel, they dismiss it with that, was as astute, and I will bet he still is, brought Ollie’s campaign to a screech- ‘‘unsubstantiated rumor’’; a wild on most days, a political analyst and a ing halt. rumor, I guess. good loyal guy. All writers must stay on the truth, Then they say that all the rest is Maybe he would say, since we are in- confirm their facts, like all of these that Gary Aldrich was an older man side the 100-day mark on Monday and seven books here. Gary Aldrich may be and did not like ex-hippies and baby time is of the essence, then read these able to recover in paperback. This is boomers running around the White books backward. If anybody lays any growing slowly. It is published by a House in jeans using foul language and pretension to being a scholar, read Un- very honorable house. I have even having the domestic help report people limited Access first, by Gary Aldrich. Then, The Choice, to get a fair profile talked to them about putting down having sex in some of the showers. And of the two competitors that will be in- some thoughts with hard covers, when the person said, well, it has hap- side the 100-day mark on Monday. Then Regnery. This, it is my favorite pub- pened before; no, sir, no, sir, these are read Blood Sport, and realize why I am lishing house in the world. both of the same sex. When all of that allowed to stand here on this floor and The rest of the book, this is my was reported in here, they said, he just point, is filled with such deadly infor- say this is a corrupt administration. does not like hippies, and then Gary Then read why Clinton raped the mation about, talking now from the Aldrich gives his birthday. Lo and be- truth on his road to the White House in top down, not covered by rule XVIII, hold, it turns out he is a baby boomer, 1992. Then read Inside the White House, talking about all the people going to and younger than the Clintons. So it is and hear it from the hired help. jail and coming up here with total not a generational thing. His honor was memory losses, this is a corrupt admin- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE offended because he served 2 years The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. istration. They are wrecking the youth under the Bushes and 2 years under the PETRI). The gentleman is out of order of our country on drugs. Clintons, and never the twain would When I leave here, I have to call my with his comment about the truth. meet. Mr. DORNAN. Yes, over the line, Mr. pal, a great hero, Barry McCaffrey, two I would recommend, skip over the Speaker, When I first said it, he was distinguished service crosses, two sil- part about the automobiles and the only the Governor of Arkansas. ver stars, three purple hearts, and he midnight sojourns, and read this first. Mr. Speaker, I remove my verb carries his wounds proudly on his arms, And maybe, because there are only 103 ‘‘rape’’ and replace it with ‘‘had trou- when he is in a short-sleeved shirt; the days left, 100 days in the campaign, and ble with the truth.’’ No, let me go point of the spear in Desert Storm, the when we wake up Monday morning, I back. ave in the Hail Mary left hook around just found out we have no votes on Clinton Confidential. Decline to Kuwait into the center of Iraq to liber- Monday. So when we are next voting, Power, the incredible problem that the ate Kuwait and win a 4-day land war; in Mr. Speaker, we are inside the 99-yard news media had getting candidate to other words, the Commander of the line. The count is on. answer direct questions, like the New 24th Infantry Division, Mechanized; I had Ronald Reagan tell me that is York Times on Whitewater, who wrote hero from Vietnam, a two-star general, the most important 100 days in your that story on March 8, 1992; 60 Minutes Barry McCaffrey, who retired as a four- life, but particularly in your first race. on January 27; Ted Koppel, on General star SYNC, Commander-in-Chief of He was endorsing me, helping me in Holmes and all the draft problems, on southern command in Panama, and 1976. I was his congressman. I had Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1992; who learned down there the enormity helped him try to overtake another and on and on and on. It is in Clinton of the drug war. It is not a war; it will great naval officer, Jerry Ford, because Confidential. be a war under him, maybe. But in to- I was a Californian. Ronald Reagan, as Then read Inside the White House, day’s paper, because he is a friend and I say, endorsed me. and here what the hired help has to say a solid American patriot, I have to give I drove up to his house once. There about the foul speech ricocheting off him the benefit of the doubt that it is he was watering, in a red bathing suit. the walls. Then First in his Class, out of context, he said ‘‘Prior drug use He told me he liked red because he was which takes you back through the should not stop anybody from serving a life guard. I said, gee, why can’t I whole life. You should now be into Oc- in government.’’ look good in a bathing suit? He was tober, and you will get to The Agenda, I know some reporter clipped that tan, he was healthy, he was vigorous, with Bob Woodward, and the volcanic one, because you cannot serve in the and he was 65 years old, and he was 4 eruptions and the wife abuse of George FBI, you cannot serve as an officer and years away from winning the Presi- Stephanopolous. By then you ought to NCO in the military if you have dency. be ready to be a scholar and read On touched cocaine once, as far as I know. I said, I have the John Birch Society the Make, and go back to the early You cannot be an LAPD street cop. I on my case, and all these people, par- days. By then you ought to be ready to cannot speak for New York, where I ties trying to force Rockefeller on me. write your own book. July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8593 I talked about the bibliography in operation involving two heroic broth- ever say her name on the floor. I dis- the back of ‘‘Unlimited Access.’’ Mr. ers, Jewish brothers who had escaped agree with him so let us try this. Speaker, guess what I left out? I Stalin’s wrath and went back under Emery Dalton books, do not read it, it thought I had it. Somebody swiped my harrowing circumstances to operate is stupid. It comes under the heading— book. That is not it, that is ‘‘POW,’’ openly as member of the U.S. Com- I cannot read the subtitle because it in- the definitive book on the torturing to munist Party. And all this time, sec- volves cocaine. But Gennifer Flowers death of Americans by people who are onds away from death sometimes in wrote a book called ‘‘Passion and Be- now giving, fighting for the torture the Kremlin itself, pretending to be trayal.’’ Tough, she deserved to be be- masters to get most-favored-nation loyal Communists when they both trayed. status. dumped out of the Communist Party Now, here is one, ‘‘The Sixties: Years I left out ‘‘Primary Colors,’’ anony- because of the antisemitism, murder of of Hope, Days of Rage.’’ That is a book mous, by anonymous; no long anony- millions of farmers and the purges of from the 1980’s, Bantam, captures the mous. Random House, Joe Klein. military officers by Stalin, the only essence of the new left. That is a fabu- Maybe it is good that that is not in man in history bloodier than Adolf Hit- lous book that I have read. ‘‘The Six- here, because that is fiction, or Joe ler except for possibly Mao. So he has ties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage.’’ But Klein will tell you, fiction based on got all sorts of books. it is about 80 percent puffery; 20 per- fact. He has got Lee Brown’s book, ‘‘Na- cent lets you know the modus operandi I understand that some news organi- tional Drug Control Strategy.’’ And of of people who were stoned most of the zation has told Joe Klein to go on what course Lee’s office was gutted by Clin- time. we Catholics call a retreat, a spiritual, ton. The Glazers, husband and wife, prayerful, reflective retreat, and think He has Califano’s book, ‘‘The Tri- Myron and Penina, ‘‘Whistleblowers: about his period of direct denying to umph and Tragedy of Lyndon John- Exposing Corruption In Government his friends that he was not anonymous. son.’’ So he goes way far afield there, and Industry.’’ Well, that is bipartisan. Since he has now made $6 million on but has got ‘‘Clinton Confidential.’’ He That takes place everywhere. ‘‘Primary Colors,’’ and I just remember has got Hillary’s ‘‘It Takes A village.’’ ‘‘Reporting the Counterculture,’’ where it is, my wife has it upstairs and He goes way back to one of my school Richard Goldstein. Sounds good. I know the next one is good, Mr. she is reading it. She is staying busy, heroes, Alexis de Tocqueville. Remem- ber that quote. Speaker, ‘‘The Federalist Papers,’’ by getting ready to write her own book on New chairman in the chair, once a Alexander Hamilton. James Madison. Clinton. Joe Klein’s book, ‘‘Primary marine, always a marine. We finally passed his 27th amendment Colors.’’ It will say anonymous on the Remember Alexis de Tocqueville’s that we cannot give ourselves pay cover, but believe me, it is Joe Klein. most famous quote: ‘‘As long as Amer- raises while we are sitting here. I do He and I had some long talks in 1992 ica is good, she will be great. When not think we deserve pay raises for a and in the 1988 convention. I withheld America has ceased being good, she long time to come, sitting or even in my judgment whether a reporter has a will cease being great.’’ the next Congress. John Jay, great Jus- right, for public relations reasons, to Then he has DeLoach’s book on Hoo- tice, ‘‘In Defense of Elitism.’’ That advance a back without laying claim to ver. Elizabeth Drew’s book is not here. does not sound like a good title. A good it when it is fiction. I have got to get it. She is excellent, a pocketbook on American society from I guess it is tough when you are writ- fair liberal, hard to find. Not sounding a liberal perspective. ‘‘In Defense of ing tough columns in one of America’s so liberal lately. Her book is called ‘‘On Elitism.’’ three major news magazines, dailies. I The Edge.’’ Clinton always on the ra- Elitism stinks. In the Republican cannot find a time to read them be- zor’s edge. Simon & Schuster. It has Party it is called country clubism. In cause I am reading three others: Na- been out 2 years. How did I miss that? that party it is called limousine lib- tional Review, the Weekly Standard, I am busy, Elizabeth. I am a double eralism. Pass on it. and Crisis, and First Things. Those are chairman, intelligence, military per- AL GORE, ‘‘His Life and Career.’’ A the four I read, so I am not reading sonnel, conference committee. puff piece written by a former FBI much Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News He says, the FBI agent, one of the agent. It might be good. anymore, because there are too many better books on Clinton—my gosh, I Alice had a great career, we are good conservative, factual, truthful am running out of time. classmates, 1976. magazines out that take a more global, Tip O’Neill’s book here, ‘‘Man Of The ‘‘Hill Rats,’’ this was by one of our I mean, a more theological and broad- House,’’ great book. He has got ‘‘The staffers. Great depiction of shenani- er, metaphysical view of the world Ruling Class,’’ Regnery, favorite pub- gans at the other end of Pennsylvania than the news magazines that when I lishing house, 1993. ‘‘The Dysfunctional Avenue. Fair enough. ‘‘Hill Rats.’’ I am was a young man in college, or when I President.’’ Now there is a title that is not calling it the Hill anymore. was a child and first started to read pushing rule XVIII. One of the possible I have got a bumper sticker on the them, at my mother and father’s en- explanations for Bill Clinton’s aberrant back of my window, my Bronco sitting couragement, and heroes were on the behavior, by Paul Flick. I never heard out there, I own a Bronco. I have owned cover, like Roosevelt, Churchill, and of it. three of them 10 years before double- fake heroes who were despots, like Sta- He has got a book I do not rec- throat-slashing O.J. Simpson. I got a lin and, evil personified, like Adolph ommend because it is big sticker, Mr. Speaker, on the back Hitler; those magazines, with not as semipornography, ‘‘Passion and Be- window. It says ‘‘cutthroat island.’’ many ads, and thoughtful essays. But trayal.’’ Gennifer Flowers. That is what I am calling this place of course Henry Luce was around, the ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE until further notice, not the Hill. This guy name that named that and Fortune The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. is an island up here, old Jenkins Hill, and other things. PETRI). Remarks in debate may include cutthroat island. That is what we got going here until further notice. That b 1430 criticisms of the President’s official ac- tions or policies, they may not include sticker’s great on the back of by Bronc. Now, he gives books that are not nec- criticism on a personal level. Here is one, ‘‘Hill Rat, Inside the essarily just related to the Clintons. I The gentleman may proceed. FBI’’; I already mentioned that by see he has got this ‘‘Unlimited Access,’’ Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I under- Kessler. Kessler wrote the book ‘‘Inside FBI agent Gary Aldrich. He has Saul stand. The White House.’’ He mentions, re- Alinsky’s book here, ‘‘Rules for Radi- The title of the book was ‘‘The Dys- member this is an FBI agent, so he cals.’’ He has Bill Clinton: ‘‘Comeback functional President.’’ I never heard of likes all these FBI books. Kid.’’ That is not here. I always it. That could mean politically dys- Then ‘‘The Secret World of American thought that was a book that was just functional. I read the subtitle. I accept Communism.’’ I got to start going fast a puff piece because of that title. that because it discussed behavior. here. ‘‘The Adult Children of Alcoholic He has John Barron’s book that I Gennifer Flowers. Syndrome.’’ Whoa, that ought to be in- have read, ‘‘Operation Solo,’’ inspiring I had a discussion with the Par- teresting given some backgrounds we story of an enormously successful FBI liamentarians here whether I could know about. H8594 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE July 26, 1996 ‘‘Whistleblowers In The Soviet read, great book, ‘‘A Hell of a Ride,’’ it Conversation,’’ Applewood Books, 1988. Union,’’ complaints and abuses under is called. John Podhoretz, great family, I want that book, Mr. Speaker. You state socialism. intellectual family, ‘‘Hell of a Ride,’’ know why? George Washington, when ‘‘Doing Time.’’ Well, that applies to a Simon and Schuster, 1993. Is it a pock- he was 16 years of age, wrote down and lot of people that Mr. Clinton put on et book? published ‘‘Rules of Civility and Behav- the job. Gordon Libby’s book, ‘‘Will.’’ Gail Sheehy, oh, I want to stay on ior for Children’’ at 16, 35 points of be- I see Bob the actor, what is his name, her good side. She writes for Vanity havior. strapped to the front of something in a Fair occasionally, and, boy, it is a When I was an aviation cadet, I was prison where Gordon Liddy was inside rough ride. Her book is called ‘‘Char- asked not so politely, ordered to reforming prisons. He is quite a guy. acter.’’ This is 1990. A good book from memorize the following on words like No fear, that is his middle name, the G- a liberal perspective, useful on AL hell and damn and filthy speech, not in man. GORE. I bet she is fair to him because front of women but in front of combat Rush Limbaugh, ‘‘See, I Told You AL GORE is a man of character. Gail veterans like yourself in combat in So.’’ Boy, do they hate it when Rush Sheey, ‘‘Character.’’ Vietnam. George Washington wrote to keeps bragging about all the things he James Stewart, ‘‘Blood Sport.’’ I got his men at Valley Forge under a gen- predicted. it covered, Aldrich. eral order; that is where we get the ‘‘The Way Things Ought To Be.’’ Michael John Sullivan, ‘‘Presidential name for these special orders. There Well, Rush went positive there and was Passions,’’ up through 1990, so it is are special orders in the military and not quite as painful as, ‘‘See, I Told probably talking about overall White general orders. The general orders You So,’’ because he was right on most House years. ‘‘See How They Run,’’ No- come from the general, and General things. vember publishing, that is also 1990. George Washington, Commander in Here is David Maraniss, ‘‘First In His Pane Taylor, P-A-N-E. Chief, rotten record-breaking winter at Class,’’ recommended by—see, if you Cal Thomas, my buddy. This one is Valley Forge, a third of his men dying get ‘‘Unlimited Access’’ and buy it like going to church, ‘‘The Things That from the inclement weather and the first, it is an easy read. Forget the Matter Most,’’ HarperCollins, 1994. snow, half of them without shoes, grip- stuff that is rumor. And then you get Great man, great book. Cal Thomas, ing at the weather, looking up to God this bibliography in the back. ‘‘Healing ‘‘The Things That Matter Most.’’ for assistance, far enough outside For Adult Children of Alcoholics’’ by Gregory Walden, ‘‘On Best Behav- Philadelphia so as not to be attacked Sara Hines Martin. That book has been ior.’’ Who does that apply to? by the British but close enough to keep out 7 months, probably good. ‘‘The Hudson Institute.’’ Great insti- the pressure on. Mary Matalin and James Carville, I tute. Al Haig was last up there running And he says to them, general order: have got that at home. Mary is my that, great four-star general, my pal. The general, Washington, is sorry to buddy. Cannot say much about the Good Secretary of State. Should have be informed that the foolish and wick- other Catholic for abortion, but ‘‘All’s hung around a whole term, the whole 8 ed practice of profane cursing and Fair,’’ Simon and Schuster. That was a years of Reagan. A good book but writ- swearing is growing into fashion. He big hit and they are great on a show. ten mainly for lawyers about ethical hopes the officers will endeavor to But to get the Cajun off message, you lapses in the Clinton administration. I check it. And he meant NCO’s, too. He have to, I guess, dunk him in ice water say administration, it is OK. hopes the officer will endeavor to or something because he is like a bro- ‘‘Whitewater,’’ the Wall Street Jour- check it and that both they and the ken record. He just keeps saying, co- nal, highly recommended. Wait a men will reflect that they can have lit- caine, so what? Scandals, so what? minute, better than ‘‘Blood Sport’’? tle hope of the blessing of heaven upon Whitewater, so what? Webster Hubbell, Better than Robert James B. Stewart’s our arms if we insult heaven by our im- so what? Vince Foster, so what? So ‘‘Blood Sport’’? The Wall Street Jour- piety and folly. Added to this, it is a what, so what, so what? Have a shrimp, nal’s book ‘‘Whitewater,’’ and it has vice so mean and so low without any have a catfish. Mary, keep an eye on been out 2 years? I will accept the temptation that every man of sense that guy. I guess he is cute. FBI’s analysis. Get ‘‘Whitewater’’ and and character detests and despises it. ‘‘Unraveling of America: History of read it before ‘‘Blood Sport,’’ but read They ought to clean up their mouths Liberalism in the 1960’s.’’ This one I ‘‘Blood Sport,’’ too. at the White House, get George Wash- know of, excellent description of new ‘‘The Agenda,’’ got it covered, agent ington’s book and read it. left infiltration of academia, the Aldrich. ‘‘The Agenda,’’ Simon and b media. And they are still all around us Schuster, now 2 years old, a book with 1445 here in Government. I will read that its own agenda. It is inaccurate, uh-oh, Now, Michael McCurry, who is not one again, Allen Matusow, M-A-T-U-S- and this misses most of the salient protected by Rule 18, I assume. He is O-W, ‘‘Unraveling of America: History characteristics of this Clinton adminis- Irish. He may be Catholic with that of Liberalism in the 1960’s.’’ tration. Well, then read it last, read name. That was a disgraceful perform- Peggy Noonan, I got that one at ‘‘The Choice’’ first. Read Woodward’s ance of his to stand before this Nation home, ‘‘What I Saw at the Revolution.’’ book ‘‘The Agenda’’ last. I just like and say: When I was a kid, I used mari- But that only brings you up to 1989. those temper tantrums in it, that is juana. A New York Times reporter told Ollie North and William Novak, ‘‘Under all. me he swore the next line our of his Fire’’; good book. ‘‘On the Make,’’ Here is the last one, oh, my gosh, mouth was going to be, And I snorted thank you, agent Gary Aldrich. You agent Aldrich, let us have lunch. Mr. coke a little bit. Thank heavens he did have got all my books here, ‘‘On the Speaker, let us, you and I, have lunch not say that. But he was cavalier about Make.’’ with agent Aldrich. Listen to his last that. Regnery again, 1994, Tip O’Neill, I al- recommendation. George Washington, What did I do? I checked his birth- ready said that is a great book, ‘‘Man the most prolific writing President in day. October 27 of a year that made of the House.’’ Tom Pauken, ‘‘The American history. They still have him, in the 1970’s, 15 to 25. Now, is a 15- Thirty Years War,’’ best book on this handwritten journals of the Father of year-old kid on September 2, the fif- page. Tom Pauken, terrific Vietnam our Country, first in war, first in tieth anniversary of World War II, I vet, decorated, wounded, President Re- peace, first in the hearts of his coun- was with five people who were in com- publican State chairman of Texas trymen. Ninety journals have not yet bat at 12 and 13 and 14 and 15 years of State, ‘‘The Thirty Years War.’’ He been updated, ended and published. The age. sent me the book. This is a confession, most prolific writer. Everybody thinks But, yes, when people are slaughtered I have never read it. Why? Is there a Jefferson is the scholar and he is the like a school in Israel, they were sen- pocket book? Thomas, send it to me, I warrior Statesman. This is an intel- iors in high school, a bomb was thrown hope, Mr. Speaker. lect, George Washington. in, we called them children. Okay. Personal experience of the new left Listen to what he says: His book, They are adults to have sex and get with which agent Aldrich says he could ‘‘George Washington’s Rules of Civility condoms and be lectured to about ho- readily identify. John Podhoretz, fast and Decent Behavior in Company and mosexuality when they are 10, 11, and July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8595 12. But I have got a 15-year-old grand- uncle, Jack Haley, the Tin Man in the the brains out. They had to adapt a child and, yes, he is a kid sometimes Wizard of Oz, and that Irish actor and tool to do that. and other times he is a top A scholar that Irish politician were dealing in Mr. STOCKMAN. And I want to point and a student. first names about friends and people out to the Speaker that we have re- But if he is talking about his high they had not seen in 40 and 50 years. ceived, and I am holding in my hand a school years, what a disgrace. But But Tip O’Neill indicated to me, for letter which I will submit for the what I meant, let me jump to the other speaking out in the well on the Pan- RECORD, we have in my district a good end. Does McCurry mean he smoked ama Canal and the B–1 bomber, and on Catholic diocese, and the staff from pot at 25? I had been out of the Air three issues he told me he disliked, this there have signed this petition asking Force 2 years at 25 and I was an F–100 is Tip O’Neill, ‘‘Man of the House,’’ I that the Congress override the Presi- element leader at 23 years of age, a su- just mentioned his book, abortion, bus- dent’s veto. personic fighter. And if I had smoked ing, and Koreagate. Koreagate, if you We had even PATRICK KENNEDY vot- pot, I would have been betraying my recall, way before your time, was a ing with us on this issue. It was a bi- officer’s oath and military oath and if scandal with people going around here partisan vote, and I cannot believe that I had been an enlisted man I would with bags of money corrupting Con- we have to override the President on it. have been kicked out of the Air Force. gressmen and, of course, it was uncom- They are going to be holding candle- You cannot be an FBI agent like Gary fortable to him. But to not talk about light vigils all across America in Sep- Aldrich if you are cavalier about drug it would have been blindsiding the tember and I think once people find out use. You still cannot touch it at West American people. Busing was a cultural about this issue and get educated on Point. issue that was tearing communities this issue, like my good friend from Who does Michael McCurry think he apart. California has so articulately explained is to say: I smoked pot in the 1970’s and Mr. STOCKMAN. Which now we real- to the American people, they will here I am now. If you do not inhale, ized we spent more money on busing unanimously support the Congress’ ef- you get to be President? If you smoke and we should have been spending it on fort to stop this sad tragedy in Amer- it and you are cavalier, you get to be schools. ica today. press secretary? It is unbelievable. Mr. DORNAN. Right, and how could a Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to my Why did not he say and it was wrong good Irish Catholic politician tell me good friend from California. and I broke the law? Smoking mari- not to talk about abortion, the chief Mr. DORNAN. Get this on Michael juana is 40 times worse for your lungs moral issue? And now we are debating McCurry. I ask unanimous consent to in carcinogenic effect than a cigarette. homosexual sodomy marriage and kill- put in the information my staff has This is unbelievable. I will do an hour ing a baby by puncturing his head and gotten me. I did not give the year he next week on drug use in the White taking its brains out when his arms was born. October 27, 1954. I first flew House, as I did an hour press con- and legs are out in the world moving in a jet 6 days before that. He attended ference out there today with my class- and it is four-fifths born. That, as the Princton from 1972 to 1976. Was he a mate, BOB WALKER. Pope says and Billy Graham says, is in- kid, for God’s sake? He graduated Mr. Speaker, we are in a war for the fanticide. magna cum laude smoking pot. Do you soul of our country. Read these books, Mr. STOCKMAN. That is exactly why know what that does? It tells kids you and vote for Bob Dole. I came to the well to day to talk about. can use drugs and graduate cum laude. f BOB, are you getting these little green Mr. STOCKMAN. Mr. Speaker, the fact that cards from your constituents? They are Congress is still debating the legality of partial- NEED TO END PARTIAL-BIRTH put out by the Catholic Church and Mr. birth abortion shows the decline of our Na- ABORTION Speaker they are putting them in—— tion's moral and spiritual health. The truth is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a f that this cruel and morbid procedure should previous order of the House, the gen- end. My hope is that our Nation will soon le- tleman from Texas [Mr. STOCKMAN] is ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER gally recognize that the unborn must be pro- recognized for 5 minutes. PRO TEMPORE tected from this immoral procedure. Mr. STOCKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I want The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. There is widespread consensus on this to say to the gentleman from Califor- GILCHREST). The gentleman from Texas issue from Members of both parties. Our op- nia, it is always a joy to hear my good [Mr. STOCKMAN] will suspend for a mo- position to partial-birth abortion is rooted as friend from California speak as he ment. The gentleman will address his much from our spiritual beliefs as from com- speaks from the heart and he speaks remarks to the Chair. mon sense. This procedure could hardly be the truth. And if there is one thing Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, would more brutal in its execution and deserves to that the gentleman has taught me, is the gentleman yield? be outlawed. that speaking the truth does not make Mr. STOCKMAN. Let me do this real My constituents have overwhelmingly con- you popular, but it is for the record quick. demned this so-called medical procedure. For and for the people to hear, and I want Mr. DORNAN. Ask for unanimous example, 24 staff members from the Catholic to thank my good friend from Califor- consent to engage in a colloquy. Diocese of Beaumont, TX, signed a letter urg- nia. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- ing me to vote in favor of overriding President Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, will the tleman has 5 minutes and cannot have Clinton's veto of H.R. 1833, the Partial Birth gentleman yield? additional time. This is a 5-minute spe- Abortion Ban Act. Mr. STOCKMAN. I yield to the gen- cial order. The gentleman has 21⁄2 min- I insert this letter into the RECORD at this tleman from California. utes remaining. time. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I think I Mr. STOCKMAN. I just want to say DIOCESAN PASTORAL OFFICE, scare some liberals when I get passion- to the Sepaker, we got thousands of DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT, ate. Have you ever seen me carry that these little cards talking about a baby Beaumont, TX, May 24, 1996. passion or any ill will in the Speaker’s that was born halfway and coming out Rep. STEVE STOCKMAN, 9th District, Cannon House Office Building, lobby or in the Cloakroom or anywhere of the mother’s birth canal. And what Washington, DC. in the Halls of this place? they do is they go in the back with the DEAR REP. STOCKMAN: Our staff here at the Mr. STOCKMAN. No, absolutely not. forceps and puncture the back of the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont write to urge I think you are respected for your pas- head and suck it out. And I am in a dis- you to vote to override President Clinton’s sion toward both sides of the aisle. trict in which I was written by the veto of HR 1833, the Partial-Birth Abortion Mr. DORNAN. You are a freshman. Catholic diocese. Ban Act. When I was a freshman, I hit the Mr. DORNAN. Would the gentleman Signed: ground running like you, like your yield? It is not forceps. They do not Father Michael Jamail, Colleen Vice, Gail Hernandez, Anne Steinman, Nancy whole wonderful nonextremist main- even have an instrument of death for Fontenot, Gertrude Morrison, Sandra line class. And I loved Tip O’Neill, the this. They use Mendelson’s scissors and Borel, Deede Covington, Father Rich- Speaker of the House. He sat with me they shove them in and open them up ard de Stefano, Rita Frederick, Caro- alone in his office for 1 hour with my to tear the back of the skull to take lyn Koch, Rosalind Sanchez, Father