[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  VIOLATION OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE

  (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, this little book here 
many Members undoubtedly have not read, but it is the rules of the 
House that were adopted January 4, and the majority of Republican 
Members said they were going to reform the House, and you could only 
serve on four subcommittee.
  Well, how come 30 Members of the majority now serve on 5 or 6 
subcommittees? Are the rules made just to be broken?
  I would like to ask the couple of gentleman from North Carolina, the 
gentlewoman from New York, the gentleman from Indiana, the gentleman 
from Maryland, all freshmen, do you tell your children that rules are 
made to be broken, because that is what you are doing? Or do you teach 
them that you do not have to follow the rules, because you are in the 
majority, and as long as you are running the place you can do whatever 
you want to do, no matter what the rules say? Because that is what you 
are doing right now.
  That is the Republican majority. They are violating the rules, 
because they have more than four subcommittees, and the rules say you 
can only have four subcommittees.

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