[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 43 (Monday, April 14, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1443-H1444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           JUSTICE IN RESOLVING THE GINGRICH ETHICS VIOLATION

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, as a former prosecutor and judge, I devoted 
my life to ensuring that great injustices did not occur; and my 
concern, Mr. Speaker, is that we are a body about to see a potential 
injustice done with respect to final resolution against the Speaker of 
the House in reimbursing the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct.
  There has been a great deal of disinformation spread about his 
particular case. In fact, Mr. Speaker, there was no finding of any 
violation of tax law. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
filed a 22-page report and found there was no evidence of any willful 
or criminal conduct on behalf of the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. 
Gingrich]. There was no violation of law found by this bipartisan 
committee. And yet, despite that, Mr. Speaker, there is this great urge 
now to come up with a preordained result as to how the Speaker ought to 
pay that.

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  Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge Mr. Gingrich to consider his options and 
give them equal consideration as he decides how to reimburse this House 
and not be cowed or intimidated by any lynch mob out to obtain a result 
disproportionate to the transgression that the House found.

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