Harold Volkmer: “It will be very brief because, as my colleague knows, I am just amazed about the support for this bill in general…”

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…

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…

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

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?