Neal Dunn: “I want to reiterate what the gentleman from Louisiana just stated. I think it is very important, since we are at the…”

“I want to reiterate what the gentleman from Louisiana just stated. I think it is very important, since we are at the point of considering such a resolution on the floor of the House, for us to look at this situation as one in which there are two ships passing in the night. My Democratic colleagues seem to be referring to activities that happened in the library, with which we are all familiar. We are talking about the reason that the Sergeant at Arms was called to the committee in the first place. It is a situation that is not unknown to my colleagues on the Committee on Ways and Means. The gentleman in question has created this sort of situation before, so it is not anything new. We all understand that. There have been letters written in the past, signed by members of the minority caucus, castigating the behavior of the gentleman in question. That is why the Sergeant at Arms was called to our committee. I just have to say that if I had been sitting in the Chair at that moment I would have felt constrained to call the Sergeant at Arms.”