George Miller: “the lyrics to an old song say, ``First you say you will, then you say you won't. You're undecided now, what are you…”

“the lyrics to an old song say, ``First you say you will, then you say you won't. You're undecided now, what are you going to do?'' This apparently has become the theme song for the chairman of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson]. One minute she says she is going to have an outside counsel, then she is not going to have an outside counsel. She said in 1988, the House should have an outside counsel when the committee investigated Speaker Wright, and now she is saying maybe she did not mean to sign that letter or agree with it at all. What is it? The fact is that the only way this inquiry of Speaker Gingrich can be brought to a conclusion is with an outside counsel. The press tells us, the Manchester Journal and Inquirer tells us, that when the chairman of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct visited with the Speaker to inform him that in all likelihood there would be an outside counsel, he hit the roof and said, ``You are going to wreck the GOP revolution and you are going to bring me down.'' Well, as he said to Speaker Wright, if you are innocent, you have nothing to fear from the outside counsel. Let us maintain the standard that the House has had since 1979 and appoint an outside counsel and let us get this investigation to a conclusion.”