Harold Volkmer: “She has not spent $18 million. We could have saved $18 million. They did not want to save that.”

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

Members of theHouse, this is a sad day for me as a Member of this body having served here 20 years. You know, last year when the ethics complaints were being filed against the Speaker, I characterized what is happening to this House as…

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.

Mr. Chairman, I think that it would be worthwhile for some of the Members to know why many of us on this side of the aisle are not going to vote for this bill. I know that the gentleman from New Mexico, who I very strongly support in all…