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                     ETHICS AND THE ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, so what is the latest from the most ethical 
administration in history? Well, the same administration that gave us 
Webster Hubbell, Mike Espy, Hazel O'Leary, Ron Brown, John Huang, Craig 
Livingstone and countless witnesses with law degrees from Yale and 
Harvard who just cannot quite recall whenever they are hauled before a 
congressional committee, now give us incomplete tapes of White House 
coffees.
  But with this administration we just do not know what we are going to 
get next. First we have documents which were subpoenaed by the special 
counsel suddenly turn up in the White House book room 2 years later. We 
have the guy put in charge of the White House security operation who 
somehow ends up with 900 FBI files of Republicans; and, oh yes, no one 
can seem to recall who hired this guy.
  Then we have over 50 people who have either fled the country or taken 
the fifth in order to avoid telling us what they know about illegal 
foreign campaign contributions. Now we learn about the existence of 
tapes of White House fundraisers, I mean coffees, which conveniently 
are released just after the Attorney General says the coffees are OK. 
Stay tuned. The soap opera continues.

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