What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

With Republicans, Tom DeLay has not been kicked off the team. He is still on the team and is still working and helping.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

It was hard with the situation of the delay, you get ready and then you have to stop. I'm worried about their hunger, their appetite, they had not eaten some from 11:30 a.m. or 12 when they eat lunch, so I got them up there (to press box) to do homework and get a snack.