Patricia Schroeder: “it is almost the Fourth of July, and today many of us will be leaving to go home. I know we are going to be giving…”

“it is almost the Fourth of July, and today many of us will be leaving to go home. I know we are going to be giving wonderful speeches about this country, about this country and how we believe it is a government of laws and not of men, that no man is above the law. Well, thank goodness for the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Johnston], because he is going to give us a chance to prove we mean that before we leave here today because today he will be offering a resolution that says to a certain committee that has all sorts of charges piled up in front of it that they have been sitting on like nesting hens, very serious charges that go to the core of this democracy saying to that committee, get on with it. Even if this person against whom these charges are being leveled is the Speaker of this House, we must act. So if we are going to give those speeches later on next week, we better be prepared to vote today to show we mean it.”