Harold Volkmer: “Yes. This leads me to the question of exactly who does the Speaker work for? Is it the American people or his New York…”

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

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.

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

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…