[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          UNFREEZE THE REPORT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, at this time of year 
communities all over America are organizing their fall coat drives to 
help the less fortunate. Well, as my colleagues might imagine, here in 
the Gingrich Congress it takes a little different twist. Speaker 
Gingrich, instead of organizing a coat drive, has organized a giant ice 
bucket drive, and I brought my ice bucket along. He is asking Members 
to turn in their ice buckets.
  Now why do my colleagues imagine that speaker Gingrich needs so much 
ice?
  Mr. Speaker, the reason is clear. There is an ethics report here in 
this Congress that is sizzling, it is hot. He needs as much ice as he 
can dump on that report to keep it in the deep freeze until after the 
election.
  We say to the Speaker, we wish him well in his ice bucket gathering, 
but there is not enough ice in this Congress to keep in deep freeze the 
report of your ethical misconduct. We call on the Speaker and the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to release the report on the 
tax violations, on the misconduct.
  Stop pouring ice on it, Mr. Speaker. Do something constructive in 
these waning days. Unfreeze the report.

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