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Porter Goss: “Mr. Speaker, if I am reading it right, it says the House of Representatives shall convene on the first Monday after the…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 1996
Mr. Speaker, if I am reading it right, it says the House of Representatives shall convene on the first Monday after the submission of the special counsel's report on Speaker Newt Gingrich to the Investigative Subcommittee to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. I cannot comment, of course, on anything going on in that subcommittee, but I cannot in any way assure that there is such a thing now or ever as a special counsel's report. The second thing that I need to point out to the maker of this resolution is that the potential time in this, even if there were to be such a thing as a report at some point, might well be into the future. I presume that the Nation's business should go forward without regard to a resolution that is as ephemeral as this one is. I would like to know whether the maker of the resolution has any time in mind?
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Porter Goss
Florida
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Questioning the timing and validity of a resolution related to a special counsel's report on Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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