Bob Ney: “I do have a speaker who has arrived, so I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner).”

I think this is a great day, and considering the holiday, and, in fact, my relatives came here under the name O'Ney, I would like to thank also the late Speaker, Tip O'Neill, our current Speaker O'Hastert and Congressman O'Larson for…

Let me again thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) and the staff of the minority and the majority for their fine work on this and, of course, gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick) who has shown great interest in these…

So now, to me, having contributions from a million members of the AFL-CIO, and I receive a lot of labor support, was a healthy thing of those people participating in this process.

Bob Ney, a six-term Republican Congressman from Ohio, will become the first lawmaker to admit to criminal wrongdoing in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.