Willie Hefner: “I do not understand why anybody would be confused, this being an exercise in lawyers here and all the technical things…”

“I do not understand why anybody would be confused, this being an exercise in lawyers here and all the technical things we have talked about. Let me just mention something here. I have been here longer than most of the people that have talked on this point of order. The most powerful committee in this House is the Rules Committee. It is the Speaker's committee. The leadership in this House and the Speaker in this House dictates the rules that will be considered on this House floor. Make no mistake about it. Now, it has been said that we cannot have a vote on censure because it is not constitutional. But no one, no one, has shown us why it is unconstitutional. It is an opinion. Nobody has given us concrete evidence that it is not constitutional for us to consider censure. Now, if that be the case and you want to make the argument that we want to be fair in these proceedings, well, then you would give us a vote on censure.”