[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1764]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ETHICS COMMITTEE MUST ACT

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise again to call on our House Ethics 
Committee to take steps to name an independent counsel to investigate 
the ever growing list of possible ethics violations by the Speaker. 
Only an independent counsel can remove the cloud of disrepute that 
hangs over this House, and every day this cloud grows darker, larger, 
and ever more sinister.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not a partisan request by me but, rather, an 
effort to get the House Ethics Committee to act on this important issue 
which has now been joined by Common Cause. It should not take our 
ethics committee 100 days to act on this most important of issues.
  I hope our Ethics Committee does not spend all their time fighting 
over stacking the staff this week like they did last week. We need the 
entire committee to review the X files put together by Common Cause.

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