[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10531]
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                  DISCREDITED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, as a person who has been here for 20 years 
and been very proud to be a Member of the United States House of 
Representatives, I love this body. But today I see that this body is 
highly discredited. Actually, I am ashamed. We have a huge cloud that 
hovers over the House of Representatives, and it can be removed, but 
the Republican majority, under Speaker Gingrich, refuses to remove 
that.
  I say let the report from James Cole, the special counsel to the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, filed over a month ago, be 
given to every Member, to the media, to the public. Let it be released.


                             point of order

  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hastings of Washington). The gentleman 
from Georgia [Mr. Linder] will state his point of order.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman in the well is referring to 
matters before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, which is 
prohibited by the rules of the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair sustains the point of order and 
asks the gentleman from Missouri to keep his remarks in order.
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, it is very apparent to me that Speaker 
Gingrich and the Ethics Committee chairman are going to do a coverup 
and we are never going to see that report. We are going to adjourn here 
in a few weeks without anyone ever knowing what is in that report. I do 
not know what is in that report.
  Mr. LINDER. Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. 
Volkmer] has expired.

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