Harold Volkmer: “Quite a few, but they are going to vote for the Stenholm provision, the Stenholm balanced budget amendment, and that is…”

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…

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

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

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…