[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          WHY DOESN'T THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ABIDE BY THE RULES?

  (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, Members of the House, I hold up this little 
book, and I ask, ``Why don't the majority abide by this book?''
  Mr. Speaker, this is a bible of the House of Representatives. It is 
the Rules of the House of Representatives. Yet under section 10, 
subsection 62(a), it says no Member of this House may be a member of 
more than four subcommittees. That is a rule of the House of 
Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, that was changed by the majority of Republicans under 
Speaker Gingrich back in January when we used to be able to have five 
subcommittees. He said, ``No, only four.'' Well, we now have 30, 30 
members of the majority Republican Party, who have more than four 
subcommittees, some as many as six.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask, ``Why doesn't the leadership of the Republican 
Party say that they will abide by the rules of this House? Why?''
  Because, Mr. Speaker, they make a constant effort not to abide by the 
rules of the House.

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