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This means that if you can still make a living with your amputated foot, then you are restricted in what you can recover, even if you can no longer play football with your kids or soccer or baseball. If you lose your sight, you cannot even…
As we move to balance the budget, pressure to raise taxes will intensify. Even with taxes as high as they are, we currently raise only about $3 in taxes for every $4 we spend. Faced with equalizing taxes and spending, big spending groups …
I rise in opposition to this rule. As so many others, my concern is what is not included in this particular piece of legislation and what, under this rule, we cannot include. As a member of the subcommittee that funds the White House and…
every Member of this body took the same oath, every one of us, not just those who are on the ethics committee, regarding upholding the Constitution of the United States, which includes in article I, section 5, the obligation that we police…
I think sometimes people are missing the point, and that is that last July 19 a smoking gun was laid down regarding the House post office through the guilty plea and the conviction of Robert V. Rota, who served for about 20 years as the…
Mr. Speaker, as has been mentioned previously in debate earlier today, last July a former employee of the House of 20 years's standing confessed in Federal court to three charges of assisting Members of Congress to embezzle large sums from…
I would remind the Members of this body that every act which we are seeking to have investigated in this matter occurred within the walls of this House of Representatives, not in Scotland or anyplace else. We are seeking to have an…
I am sure the gentleman from California will be relieved to know that the principal witness in this matter, Mr. Rota, has already been granted immunity by the Justice Department from any further prosecution for any other acts that he may…
Because the Ethics Committee of this body is sitting on it instead of investigating as it needs to do to get to the bottom of this scandal and hold Members of this institution accountable. We have guilty pleas, and we have Federal court…
I hear people saying, ``Oh, we will destroy the institution'' if we are asked to have Congress follow the same laws and rules and standards that apply to everyone else. The problem is that Congress seems dead set on destroying itself, and…
I certainly hope that Members of this body when they are in their districts, for example, for town hall meetings, and there will be hundreds, maybe even thousands of those conducted in the next week and a half, and I certainly hope they…
I think it is obvious that a ``no'' vote means ``Do not investigate, do not report, do not do anything.''
I thank the gentleman for his remarks about character and the necessity for pursuing this matter. And you asked the question, why is it not being pursued. We have an obligation. It does not matter if anyone else is doing something, the…
Are we to be treated differently and to have some sort of immunity from prosecution for an act such as embezzlement because we are elected officials, because we are in Washington, DC, because we are the focus of power in this country and…
I am not asking any Member to join me in my opinion of the truth of the allegations. I am asking Members to join me in getting to the bottom of it. The ethics committee has not prejudged what has occurred or not occurred and they should…
Now more than ever before the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent…
I thank the gentleman for his remarks about character and the necessity for pursuing this matter. And you asked the question, why is it not being pursued. We have an obligation. It does not matter if anyone else is doing something, the…
I think it is important to note when people say we should not do it because the Justice Department is investigating it, certainly we have had many contemporaneous investigations where the House was pursuing allegations of ethical…
I think it is important to note when people say we should not do it because the Justice Department is investigating it, certainly we have had many contemporaneous investigations where the House was pursuing allegations of ethical…
Are we to be treated differently and to have some sort of immunity from prosecution for an act such as embezzlement because we are elected officials, because we are in Washington, DC, because we are the focus of power in this country and…
Reclaiming my time, the gentleman correctly states that the resolution does not pass judgment upon any Member. It does not say allegations are true. Certainly each of us are going to have varying degrees of personal opinion, and let us…
Over in the Senate, they are making front-page headlines, because of what? An ethics investigation into a Senator. And what is it that the Senator is supposed to have done that makes front-page headlines? It is a question of where has he…
I have merely mentioned the fact that in the U.S. Senate there is an investigation which is front-page news and certainly should not be suppressed in this body, which is front-page news, looking into allegations of alleged sexual…
it is never a pleasant task to have to address this Chamber, and those others that are listening in, on something of the gravest import that involves the integrity and the dignity of this body, however a situation has arisen that is very…
this body will investigate anyone but ourselves when it comes to scandals and impropriety. Got suspicious activity in foreign banks? We will have hearings. Something up with Iran-Contra? We will have hearings. Got a Senator accused of…
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