[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE COMMITTEE SHOULD GET ON WITH IT

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, it is almost the Fourth of July, and 
today many of us will be leaving to go home. I know we are going to be 
giving wonderful speeches about this country, about this country and 
how we believe it is a government of laws and not of men, that no man 
is above the law.
  Well, thank goodness for the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Johnston], 
because he is going to give us a chance to prove we mean that before we 
leave here today because today he will be offering a resolution that 
says to a certain committee that has all sorts of charges piled up in 
front of it that they have been sitting on like nesting hens, very 
serious charges that go to the core of this democracy saying to that 
committee, get on with it. Even if this person against whom these 
charges are being leveled is the Speaker of this House, we must act.
  So if we are going to give those speeches later on next week, we 
better be prepared to vote today to show we mean it.

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