Robert Dornan: “Right. And this particular one, this current Congress, it is not the last Congress, it is the 102d Congress, April 1992…”

“Right. And this particular one, this current Congress, it is not the last Congress, it is the 102d Congress, April 1992, and it is published by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, which is loosely referred to as the Ethics Committee, probably because their manual is called the House Ethics Manual. Now my wife opened this up because of a recent dust-up around here between Republican Members, and she came to the opening page. It has the committee two Congresses ago. Lou Stokes was the chairman. Half of these people are defeated or left, like Fred Grandy and others. Jon Kyl has moved on with distinction to the U.S. Senate from his great State of Arizona. And my wife looked at the first page, and it says: "The code of official conduct, House rule 43," and it is good ethics material. "A member, officer, employee of the House of Representatives shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect credibly upon the House of Representatives." Give me a drum roll; that is a given. Do not seduce a page. Do not seduce or corrupt the pages or you get kicked out. Wrong. You can do that; not get kicked out, only get a censor. turn your back on the House, use the Lord's name in vain in the Speakers lobby, and get reelected in one of our original 13 colonies five more times. That was the darkest day in the history of this House in this century.…”