[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12748]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 COMPLAINT FILED WITH ETHICS COMMITTEE

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, when we as Members of Congress choose to 
look the other way at wrongdoing, when the agreed-upon standards of 
ethics of this body are seriously violated and no one makes a peep, the 
credibility of this institution is seriously damaged.
  One of my colleagues has filed a complaint with the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct, the Ethics Committee. He has raised 
serious questions about Majority Leader Tom DeLay's conduct, questions 
related to bribery, extortion, fraud, money laundering, and abuse of 
power. Some Republicans have tried to dismiss this complaint as mere 
partisan politics rather than respond to the substance of the charges. 
The gentleman from California (Mr. Doolittle) threatened that as a 
result of this complaint from now on it is a matter of, quote, you kill 
my dog, I'll kill your cat.
  This House has a duty to investigate wrongdoing, and we should do it 
immediately and seriously; and we should do it without killing dogs or 
cats.

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