That explains why it was not in the bill when it passed the House and the Senate.

Now how many times has Fed Ex tried to get this provision in other bills unsuccessfully before this bill?

Now if this was purely a technical little provision that really did not harm anybody or do anything, they would not have that problem; would they?

the Republican majority, under the imperial Speaker, the gentleman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, have become very upset when we look at their policies, and we call them and their policies extreme and radical. They get very upset. Are they…

Now, as my colleagues know, I have been reading about this, and I admire the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and up to Wednesday night I would say he helped grow that beautiful bouquet of flowers. But I would like to quote the gentleman from…

it is time and the time is now that the chairperson of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Nancy ``Stonewall'' Johnson, release that report on Speaker Gingrich so that we can all know what is in it. I do not know what is in it…

Well, Mr. Speaker, now it appears that the Speaker can get up and say that, ``I have been exonerated by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct from all these charges,'' and I cannot stand down here and correct the record. Boy, oh…

Bear is fine. Let us vote down the rule, and let us get the report out of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

is this not another example of the entreme radical agenda of the majority? Is this not another example of the radical extremism of the majority?

it is the effect of the resolution, is to give the Speaker the power of martial law.

it is very apparent, I think, to everybody out there that is seeing what is happening here, that Members of the House who are calling for this report to be made public are attempted to be gagged.

with all the allegations that I have made as to the Speaker and the ethics, with all the other ones that the Members on this side have made, many of which are true, it has amazed me that not one Member of the majority party, not one…

I appreciate the ruling of the Chair, and it is very apparent to me and, I hope, to Members of this House that the majority does not want any of the minority, anybody, talking about ethics questions on the floor of the House. They just do…

Now the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Linder] goes on and says that the Lewis resolution reflected an ongoing and desperate action with a small band of Democrats who refused the ethics process by filing one baseless claim after another. Now…

I rise to strongly urge Members to vote to override the President's veto on this legislation. This legislation is much-needed if we are going to save the thousands of children who are killed unnecessarily each year by this procedure. There…

we have just been through a little charade here in the House. The last two votes on motions to table were purely what I call a charade as part of the total coverup that is going on in the ethics investigation of our Speaker. You know…

one newspaper in Connecticut appropriately describes the chairperson of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct as ``Stonewall Johnson.'' That is a perfect, appropriate description of the gentlewoman from Connecticut, and she has…

I say it is a huge waste of taxpayer's money to spend $500,000 to have a very good attorney to gather up all this evidence and give it to the committee, which the committee already had, and if it is not a report, then I do not know what it…

That report, it is a report by any other name is a report, ought to be published and the Members of this House ought to know what is in it. More importantly, the American public ought to know what is in it.

Members of theHouse, this is a sad day for me as a Member of this body having served here 20 years. You know, last year when the ethics complaints were being filed against the Speaker, I characterized what is happening to this House as…

Yes, and by the way, for the public's edification, no Democratic member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct can tell us what is in that report. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, as a body, has to release it. So…

a month ago James Cole, who is the special counsel investigating our Speaker, Newt Gingrich, filed a report with the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. It cost half a million dollars of taxpayers' money. What has happened to it…

these words were spoken by a Member of this House several years ago: The 435 Members of the House should look at all the facts, should have available to them all the reports and all the background documents, and the American people should…

I believe it is time for Members of this House to stand up to intimidation. A letter has been sent from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. Archer, to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Ms. Richardson…