Newt Gingrich: “I reclaim my time because what the gentleman just said, of course, was, in fact, ``No.'' There will never in the…”

“I reclaim my time because what the gentleman just said, of course, was, in fact, ``No.'' There will never in the Committee of the Whole during the amending process be a vote on Gekas. That is what the gentleman said. I say to the gentleman, You don't want to tell the country that when we offer the motion to recommit, which we will offer if Bryant passes, and the motion to recommit is the Gekas amendment, that every Democrat walking on this floor will be told, Oh, don't vote for the motion to recommit. That's a Republican procedural vote. And you weren't willing to make Gekas freestanding as a clean vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole because you know that faced in the Committee of the Whole as an amendment with Gekas that your Democratic Members will be afraid to go back home and say, Oh, I voted against covering Congress because every organization in the country in small business, every organization in the country in taxpayer groups, every conservative and citizen organization, is saying they are sick of Congress passing laws that don't apply to Congress, and Gekas is the only amendment that truly applies, despite the Independent Counsel Act to the Congress.”