[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RELEASE ETHICS REPORT ON SPEAKER

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mr. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, Newt Gingrich is absolutely right. He said, 
``The 435 Members of the House should look at all the facts, should 
have available to them all the reports and all the background documents 
and the American people should have the same.''
  Newt Gingrich said that in 1989 about the ethics report on then 
Speaker Jim Wright. And what he said then about the need for full 
disclosure is equally true today about the outside counsel's report on 
Newt Gingrich's own dealings.
  Don't just take my word for it. Today's New York Times calls upon the 
House Ethics Committee to release the report. The Times says ``If after 
all this time, Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues cannot rise above 
partisanship to act promptly on Mr. Coles' findings and make them 
public, they will demonstrate that this supposedly principled panel is 
little more than a charade.
  Stop the coverup. Release the ethics report on Newt Gingrich.

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