[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 154 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  APPOINT AN OUTSIDE COUNSEL AND BRING INVESTIGATION OF SPEAKER TO A 
                               CONCLUSION

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, the lyrics to an old song 
say, ``First you say you will, then you say you won't. You're undecided 
now, what are you going to do?''
  This apparently has become the theme song for the chairman of the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson]. One minute she says she is going to have an 
outside counsel, then she is not going to have an outside counsel.
  She said in 1988, the House should have an outside counsel when the 
committee investigated Speaker Wright, and now she is saying maybe she 
did not mean to sign that letter or agree with it at all. What is it?
  The fact is that the only way this inquiry of Speaker Gingrich can be 
brought to a conclusion is with an outside counsel. The press tells us, 
the Manchester Journal and Inquirer tells us, that when the chairman of 
the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct visited with the 
Speaker to inform him that in all likelihood there would be an outside 
counsel, he hit the roof and said, ``You are going to wreck the GOP 
revolution and you are going to bring me down.''
  Well, as he said to Speaker Wright, if you are innocent, you have 
nothing to fear from the outside counsel. Let us maintain the standard 
that the House has had since 1979 and appoint an outside counsel and 
let us get this investigation to a conclusion.

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