[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         WE SHOULD WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE NATION'S PROBLEMS

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, for more than 13 months there has been an 
orchestrated campaign to demonize the Speaker. I think that this 
campaign that has gone on to try to destroy him is unfortunate. Of the 
65 specific allegations that were made in the complaints to the 
Committee on Ethics about the Speaker, all were technically dismissed 
or fully dismissed except one.
  Of that one, there has been a special investigator brought in to work 
with the subcommittee to look at that one narrow little charge, which a 
former IRS commissioner has already suggested to both the Speaker and 
others is no violation whatsoever.
  Mr. Speaker, I think all of us have an obligation to ourselves and an 
obligation to this institution to be honest and to be forthright and to 
make sure that the integrity of the institution is maintained. The 
politicization of the Committee on Ethics over this last year I think 
is unfortunate, because these issues have been resolved by five 
Democrats and five Republicans working together, and together we can 
all continue to work to solve the Nation's problems.

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