[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]




  REPUBLICANS PLAN TO PREVENT VOTE ON PRIVILEGED RESOLUTION REGARDING 
                          GINGRICH COMPLAINTS

  (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. Mr. Speaker, on August 5, 1987, the 
gentleman from Georgia, Representative Newt Gingrich, offered a 
privileged resolution on the House floor. The Gingrich resolution 
directed the Committee on Ethics to expand the investigation into 
another Member of the House, Representative Fernand St. Germain.
  At that time no one moved to table the Gingrich resolution in 1987. 
The House was permitted to fully debate the resolution in 1987, and the 
House took an up or down rollcall vote on the resolution in 1987.
  Times have apparently changed. When the gentleman from Florida, 
Representative Johnston, offered a similar resolution to ask the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to do the same thing with 
respect to the case of Mr. Gingrich, the Republican leadership plans to 
table the resolution immediately, the Republican leadership plans to 
block all debate on the resolution, and the Republican leadership plans 
to prevent a vote on the resolution.
  My, how things have changed and, my, how the people's House has 
changed.

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