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…”

it is budget time again. Once again, I hear my extreme radical Republican colleagues, under the gentleman from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, and Bob Dole telling the American public they are going to save Medicare. How are they going to do that…

these words were spoken by a Member of this House several years ago: The 435 Members of the House should look at all the facts, should have available to them all the reports and all the background documents, and the American people should…

Yes, and by the way, for the public's edification, no Democratic member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct can tell us what is in that report. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, as a body, has to release it. So…

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…