House Panel Asks Fiske to Testify on Whitewater
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WASHINGTON — The House Banking Committee will begin Whitewater hearings July 26 and has asked special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. and top White House officials to testify.
Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.) said Monday he invited Fiske to report on the “Washington phase” of his inquiry.
Gonzalez said the first hearing would focus on the removal of Whitewater files from White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster’s office by White House officials after his death last July. Gonzalez is not expected to concentrate on the circumstances of Foster’s death, which authorities ruled a suicide.
Those invited to testify include White House Counsel Lloyd N. Cutler; Thomas (Mack) McLarty, who became presidential counselor Monday after serving as chief of staff; Margaret A. Williams, chief of the First Lady’s staff, and Bernard Nussbaum, the former White House counsel who took files from Foster’s office and gave some to Clinton’s private attorney.
The Senate plans to start similar hearings by July 29.
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