Patricia Schroeder: “I am amazed. I think it is time we start calling the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct the admonishment…”

“I am amazed. I think it is time we start calling the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct the admonishment committee. Yesterday they issued admonishment No. 6 for our Speaker, and they went on to say in there, which I find really quite amazing, the committee concludes that the Speaker's conduct of allowing the routine presence in his office of Mr. Jones demonstrates a continuing pattern of lax administration and poor judgment that has concerned this committee in the past with the other five admonishments. They go on to say: Accordingly, the committee directs you to take immediate steps not only to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents and ensure compliance with standards but to guard against the appearance of impropriety. Now, I think everyone in America ought to ask for the same standards. When you get stopped for a speeding ticket, until you get six admonishments I guess they are never really going to do anything. I would say the way Members of Congress get treated is how an average citizen should be treated. I find it absolutely amazing that the rules can be thrown over with such great abandonment.”