: House leaders say that one is too strict, another lets too many things go by, and so on. I sat in the Chair for almost seven years, and I can state that we can never please everyone.
“Damned if you do, damned if you don't”, just about sums up the situation. So you do the best you can, according to your conscience, and you hope that the House will give itself a stricter code of conduct or will come up with rules that the Speaker can more easily apply. That’s what I’ve come to think, looking back on it.