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Martin Hoke: “I think it is a great curiosity that the previous speaker, who presided over this body as the majority leader in the…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 1995
I think it is a great curiosity that the previous speaker, who presided over this body as the majority leader in the 103d Congress, knows full well that during that Congress we were under the 5-minute rule many, many, many times, and during that time we never, never once suspended under the 5-minute rule so that we would not be able to sit in committee. So I think it is a great curiosity that today we should hear that this is a complete undermining of all of the reforms that we are bringing forward, that we are somehow going back on the business of the people's House, when in fact that is the only way that this place was run during the 103d Congress. It was never run another way.
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Martin Hoke
Republican · Ohio
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Discussing procedural rules and reforms in the House during a debate.

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