Mark Souder: “let me state at the beginning here a couple of entry points. One, I talked last night and earlier tonight a little bit…”

“let me state at the beginning here a couple of entry points. One, I talked last night and earlier tonight a little bit on this particular subject, and I do not want to give the impression that that is all that I am focusing on or anybody else here is focusing on. All day long we have been debating multiple bills. I spoke on the juvenile justice bill, on the medicinal use of marijuana bill. We also passed Congressman Sessions' methamphetamine bill, many other pieces of legislation. I met for several hours with the Higher Education Conference Committee. We do many things. But one of the things we do have a charge of is government oversight. It is also very difficult, and I know it seems kind of curious as we discuss some of these matters, that we are under very tight and wise rules about what we can and cannot say, and it is like having a hundred or a thousand or a million pound gorilla out there on one subject right now that we cannot talk about. And we have to be very careful about what we say about the highest leaders in our land and about other Members, and I think those rules are good. So sometimes if it seems we are a tad evasive at this point, it is not that we are in general, but on this House floor I think we have high standards to meet, we have weighty matters before us, as we have had before in this country's history. And I know many Americans wish this would just go away and that we would not have to deal with these subjects.”