[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H309-H310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                WE ARE FOLLOWING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE

  (Mr. SENSENBRENNER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speaker, yes, today has been a debacle, and a 
debacle because I think of people not the reading the rules that we 
have been living under for as long as I have been 
[[Page H310]] in the Congress of the United States. The rule that has 
been voted upon today and the Speaker's rulings have been in the 
precedent book of the House of Representatives for decades. It has 
never been in order for one Member to impugn the motivation of another 
Member. Speakers throughout the years, whether they be Democrat or 
Republican, have always enforced that rule in a uniform manner, and 
that is what happened today.
  I do not see why my friends on the other side of the aisle object to 
that. They should not, because their Speakers enforced their rules just 
like our Speaker today has enforced the rules that we adopted in the 
first day of the session. Let us get down to legislation instead of 
talking about this.

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