I saw ,, Mr. CLinton's speech at the Black Cacus meeting yesterday ,,
I felt that intuitively that he was endorsing Mr. Gore more than usual ,, as he was preparing the public .. did any one else see the spech and any feeling on it ?
Sunday September 20, 9:12 pm Eastern Time
White House says it worried about Hyde's fairness
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday night expressed concern Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was conceding control of his committee to more partisan Republicans.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, arriving here with President Bill Clinton for the annual United Nations General Assembly, said committee member Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, had reported that Hyde told him last week he was only the ''subchairman,'' meaning that House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Georgia Republican, was really in charge.
This conversation was said to have occurred during the debate over whether to release Clinton's Aug. 17 videotaped testimony in the Monica Lewinsky matter.
In a vote along party lines, the committee decided to release the videotape. It will be made public on Monday morning along with other documents from independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation.
''We're very concerned that the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is conceding that he's not really running the committee, that there are more partisan people within the leadership that are giving him his marching orders,'' Lockhart told reporters.
''We think he (Hyde) should assert his leadership and provide a fair and bipartisan process,'' he said.
Hyde would oversee any impeachment inquiry into the president's extramarital affair with Lewinsky and any attempts to cover it up.
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