Harold Volkmer: “Would the gentleman also, as the gentlewoman from Florida, consider this a breach of the contract that Congress has with…”

With all the allegations that I have made as to the Speaker and the ethics, with all the other ones that the Members on this side have made, many of which are true, it has amazed me that not one Member of the majority party, not one…

It is the effect of the resolution, is to give the Speaker the power of martial law.

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…

Now the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Linder] goes on and says that the Lewis resolution reflected an ongoing and desperate action with a small band of Democrats who refused the ethics process by filing one baseless claim after another. Now…