Harold Volkmer: “Now if this was purely a technical little provision that really did not harm anybody or do anything, they would not have…”

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?

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…

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.