Harold Volkmer

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

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

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…

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

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?

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

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

One of my many small businessmen in my rural district, he has been in business for 30 years, he has approximately 25 employees. Does the gentleman know what he said? He said, the minimum wage should be increased. He does not pay the…

This is something that Bill Emerson worked on for about 10 years, and working together, he with a bridge in Cape Girardeau, I with a bridge in Hannibal, both across the Mississippi, and also with the Chouteau Bridge in Kansas City. Bill…

No, I am addressing my statement to all of the Members on that side because they almost all voted for that budget that calls for the tax cut in it. I say forget it.

The gentleman would not have to do that. If he would have taken the coalition or the Blue Dog budget, he would not have had to do that. We would not be here today making this decision on these type of amendments if you would just forget…

This is for the purpose of making it clear that the appropriation on further studies and evaluations by this office over USDA will only be prospective for the coming year. It does not include any evaluation and studies that are ongoing at…

If the Obey amendment fails, then I would support the Manzullo amendment, but I would not support both. But I would support the Obey amendment.

I may have been able to support the gentleman's amendment is he had offered it as a substitute for Obey. But as accumulate to Obey I am going to have to oppose the amendment, and I think the House should oppose the amendment, because when…

I would recommend to the House that we go ahead and vote and adopt the Obey amendment, which I think is a reasonable cut in administrative costs.

I am saying, you are elevating a local ordnance to a 5-year Federal offense. We do not do it in anything else. We do not make a DWI, a DWI which could kill people, we do not make that a Federal offense.

Illegal because of what? Because of a local zoning ordinance that says you cannot have a gun in this town?