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Harold Volkmer: “It is time and the time is now that the chairperson of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Nancy…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1996
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, whether it is good or bad, but we are entitled to know. Every Member of this House, the public, the press is entitled to know what is in that report.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Calling for the release of a report on Speaker Gingrich during a House debate.

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