[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14178]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT PROVIDED THOUGHTFUL AND 
          THOROUGH CONSIDERATION OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST SPEAKER

  (Ms. DUNN of Washington asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut, Congresswoman Nancy Johnson, and her 
bipartisan Committee on Standards of Official Conduct for the 
thoughtful and thorough job that they did, the thorough consideration, 
and the fact that they threw out 64 of these 65 complaints against our 
Speaker.
  I want to be clear also, Mr. Speaker. Ethics charges are serious 
charges, and they should not be used for partisan purposes. So I am 
delighted the committee has declared in a unanimous bipartisan report 
that 64 of the 65 charges are dismissed. And the last charge, which was 
a matter of tax exempt status for a university, will be observed by an 
outside adviser.
  Mr. Speaker, the fact is that Democrats are on the wrong side of 
history. Their ideas have been rejected by the American people and 
their institutions are the cause of our $5 trillion national debt. The 
liberalism they have defended for a generation has left a legacy of 
debt, a culture of dependence and the breakdown of our American 
families. As they see it, the only hope left to them as a party is to 
destroy one man's character. It is wrong, it will not work, and the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct report proves it.

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