[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE SPEAKER

  (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, unfortunately this House has 
now been presented with prima facie evidence of the serious charges 
against Speaker Gingrich and the manipulation of, violations of, some 
very sacred laws in this country: the laws of how we conduct our 
elections and elect our people to represent us, the tax laws that 
protect the taxpayers of this country and try to encourage people to 
give money to nonprofit foundations to do good works on behalf of our 
society and the ethics rules of this House.
  Those are the basic laws that speak from us to the people of this 
country. Now we see that the Speaker has been engaged in a widespread 
conspiracy to intentionally violate those laws. Now we see that the 
ethics committee is engaged in a widespread coverup of the 
investigation. The ethics committee must understand what Speaker 
Gingrich understood about the ethics committee many years ago. It does 
not have the ability and has an inherent conflict trying to investigate 
the most powerful Member of this House. This investigation should be 
turned over to the special prosecutor.

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