Tom Coburn: “We have voted an invitation to the Justice Department to investigate a rules violation in either the House or the…”

“We have voted an invitation to the Justice Department to investigate a rules violation in either the House or the Senate. We have set an amazing precedent. What we recommend is a bicameral committee made up of four members of each body, two from each party, that would report back to the appropriate ethics committee or to the Justice Department, if there is, in fact, an infraction of law. My hope would be that we would take care of the problems in our own body. The House would take care of the problems in their body and that we would, in fact, give greater than 36 votes to this amendment.”