congressional_record: CREC-1998-11-12-pt1-PgE2333-2
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| CREC-1998-11-12-pt1-PgE2333-2 | 1998-11-12 | 105 | 2 | 144 | STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE PLAN FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY | HOUSE | EXTENSIONS | ALLOTHER | E2333 | E2333 | [{"name": "Juanita Millender-McDonald", "role": "speaking"}] | 144 Cong. Rec. E2333 | Congressional Record, Volume 144 Issue 152 (Thursday, November 12, 1998) [Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 152 (Thursday, November 12, 1998)] [Extensions of Remarks] [Page E2333] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE PLAN FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY ______ HON. JUANITA MILLENDER-McDONALD of california in the house of representatives Thursday, November 12, 1998 Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, I come before you to ask a very important question: Why did we bring this resolution to this floor? I do not condone the President's behavior, but what I find truly abhorrent is the behavior of my Republican colleagues who have launched a partisan attack against the President. Certainly I believe that the President's conduct should be investigated and that the Congress has a constitutional responsibility to hold hearings looking into the allegations made by the Independent Counsel. But these hearings cannot be entered into lightly. It is a grave and serious matter that faces us. What we decide here today will have ramifications for generations to come. How we conduct ourselves will serve as a precedent for those who follow. We owe it to the American people to rise to the level of the challenge before us and to move forward with this investigation in a solemn and judicious fashion--not in the destructive partisan manner that we have seen so far. The investigation of the President has gone on far too long and must be brought to a swift conclusion--through a focused, limited and fair investigation--for the sake of the nation and in the interest of returning the attention of Congress back to the business of families and their children. The people of California's 37th Congressional District elected me to fight for better education, to fight for safer streets, to fight for the protection of Social Security. Instead I have had to spend the crucial last weeks of this Congress wading through more than 4,000 pages of what amounts to little more than pornography. By bogging down real legislative business with salacious details of sex and scandal, my Republican colleagues have done nothing to make a real difference in the lives of America's working families. I call on my colleagues on the other side of the aisle today to change their do-nothing ways and finally make a real difference in Americans' lives by walking the high road on into the history books. Thus far this session, Republicans have turned their backs on our children, they have tried to rob money from our seniors and they have chipped away at a woman's right to choose. I urge my Republican colleagues to, at long last, do right by the American people and vote for a just investigative process--the limited, focused, fair proposal presented by my Democratic colleagues |