Harold Volkmer: “Yes, and by the way, for the public's edification, no Democratic member of the Committee on Standards of Official…”

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…

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.

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?

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…