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Patricia Schroeder: “today the New York Times lead editorial talks about this House and its stalling on ethics. This is shameful. The New…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
today the New York Times lead editorial talks about this House and its stalling on ethics. This is shameful. The New York Times points out that the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is supposed to meet today, and it goes on to say: If after all this time, Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues cannot rise above partisanship to act promptly on Mr. Cole's findings and make them public, then they will demonstrate that this is little more than a charade and not the principled committee upholding the traditions and honor of this House. Mr. Speaker, I hope everybody looks at this and everybody in this body realizes we will all be tainted if we do not get this report out. It has taken 2 years, it has taken half a million dollars, and they are trying to hermetically seal it down there, say none of us can see it, but then pronounce that it says nothing. If it said nothing, I would think we would be able to see it.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Addressing the House's delay in releasing ethics findings during a debate.

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