I have a point of order, Mr. Chairman. I have put you on notice that I was going to raise this point of order. It has to do with some comments that were made by Mr. Martin at the end of the last meeting that were most inappropriate. You, sir, have an obligation to keep order in this meeting. You have an obligation to maintain the integrity of this committee.
Mr. Martin, whom I have sat with on other committees, is normally an excellent member of committees, and he normally isn't subject to those outbursts. I hope it was something that he simply lost control of for a few moments. I believe he should apologize not only to you, sir, because the remarks were directed toward you as the chair.... I could go into the rules of order of the House that talks about that, but I'm not going to do that. Most of you are all aware of that. Certainly his comments were most inappropriate, and considering that this is the ethics committee--this is the ethics committee--and we have members making derogatory comments to the chair of the committee on at least two occasions, once from his chair and once from up here, I hope we'll give him a chance to speak. Hopefully he will withdraw or apologize profusely, because of all the committees, this is the committee in which you don't act in that fashion.