[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             MR. SPEAKER, SHOW SOME PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, refresh my memory. Was not a big part of 
Newt Gingrich's so-called Contract With America personal 
responsibility?
  Well, Newt, here is your chance.
  After 2 years of distortions, distractions and delays, you can 
finally show some personal responsibility.
  The ethics committee has directed the special counsel to expand his 
investigation of you, to determine, in part, whether you failed to--
quote--``provide accurate, reliable and complete information'' to him.
  It is all about personal responsibility.
  You like to preach to legal immigrants about it. You like to preach 
to low-income Americans about it. You like to preach to vulnerable 
mothers and children about it. Now it is time for you to show some 
personal responsibility of your own.
  Since reasons to expand this investigation have been found, you 
should step down.
  Newt, you are fond of saying that you are a revolutionary. Why do you 
not show a revolutionary change in your behavior?
  Have enough decency to do what you screamed that Jim Wright should do 
8 years ago--stop the embarrassment to this institution, stop the 
embarrassment to this country--step aside as Speaker of the House.

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