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Harold Volkmer: “One newspaper in Connecticut appropriately describes the chairperson of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 1996
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 handled well the delay so that none of the ethics violations by the Speaker will ever be seen in the light of day.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

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Criticizing the chairperson of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct during a debate.

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