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Harold Volkmer: “Now that we have the ethics committee and a formal complaint can be filed, I hope it will be done. And wait a minute…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1995
Now that we have the ethics committee and a formal complaint can be filed, I hope it will be done. And wait a minute though, we have got another little problem, because those of us who see how the ethics committee is structured with the same amount of numbers that--and who appointed the ethics committee on your side? The speaker. Now, are those people going to find against the Speaker? Maybe we ought to have an outside counsel, independent outside counsel.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the structure and potential bias of the ethics committee.

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