[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H13809-H13810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ALLOWING DEBATE ON PRIVILEGED RESOLUTION

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, in my new quasi-emeritus status, let me 
talk to the Members of the other side of the aisle. We are going to 
have a very important privileged resolution come in front of this House 
today, and that resolution we should be allowed to debate. If they vote 
to table it, we cannot even debate it. That resolution is about what is 
the status of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct's report 
on all the many, many charges against the Speaker.
  Please, I say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, get 
your voting cards back, get your spines out of the Cloakroom. We ought 
to have that kind of a report, especially on a day when the newspapers 
in America are filled with articles talking about how the Federal 
Election Commission has 

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said the appearance of corruption is spread all over GOPAC and the 
Speaker's fundraising. If he cannot abide by the laws that are in 
force, if there is not an appearance of corruption, we must get a 
report from the Ethics Committee, or we are part of the coverup. If you 
vote to table, you are covering up. Do not do it.

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