Harold Volkmer: “Bear is fine. Let us vote down the rule, and let us get the report out of the Committee on Standards of Official…”

Now if this was purely a technical little provision that really did not harm anybody or do anything, they would not have that problem; would they?

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…

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…

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…