Harold Volkmer: “I would recommend to the House that we go ahead and vote and adopt the Obey amendment, which I think is a reasonable cut…”

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?

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…

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