Harold Volkmer: “If the Obey amendment fails, then I would support the Manzullo amendment, but I would not support both. But I would…”

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

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

Now how many times has Fed Ex tried to get this provision in other bills unsuccessfully before this bill?

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…