July 26, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð 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 1976ÐI cannot go to surgery; pardon is turning into a cottage industry of all suffocated to death, little faces me, I had my beeper onÐ2 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.