Harold Volkmer: “Members of the House, here we go again. You know, it has been a very interesting 6 months. And I can still remember the…”

“Members of the House, here we go again. You know, it has been a very interesting 6 months. And I can still remember the very first day when we sat here adopting changes in the rules of the House. And we went through each one individually, 20 minutes of debate and then a vote, 20 minutes of debate and a vote, and how we heard from the majority how this House was going to be reformed, how it was going to more adequately represent the people of this great country. But lo and behold, let us see what has happened since January 4. Let us go through this 6 months and see what has happened. How about the provision under the rules, the very new rule, that a Member could only serve on four subcommittees? How about that? Well, lo and behold, what do we find out? We have got 30 Members, most of them freshmen, the ones that held the charge for reform on five or six subcommittees. The heck with the rules of the House. I am better than the rules of the House. I do not have to abide by the rules of the House. I am a freshman in the majority. I can serve on five or six and the to heck with rules of the House.”