Mr. MOULDER. I asked you a question if you are now or have ever been a member of the Communist Party. You may answer. Then you may have a point of order to raise when you answer to that question. Mr. VELDE. If he answers the question instead of refusing to answer. (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. LAWRIE. I am going to have to decline to answer that question. And the reason I am declining to answer that question is that, due to the many oppressive and repressive laws, both on the Federal and State level, I am going to invoke the first amendment and also the fifth amendment. I would like to be able to read the first and fifth amendments from the Constitution of the United States. I believe we have a good Constitution, and I am sure--or at least this committee claims they are interested in the Constitution, and upholding the rights. So I would like to read from the Constitution of the United States at this time. Mr. MOULDER. That won’t be necessary. We are familiar with the provisions of the Constitution. You have declined to answer on the first and fifth amendment. Do you have any questions, Mr. Wheeler? Mr. WHEELER. Would you relate briefly to the committee your employment record? (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. LAWRIE. You stated previously that you would give me a point of order if I answered the question. Mr. MOULDER. You didn’t answer the question. Mr. LAWRIE. I responded; I certainly responded to the question. Mr. MOULDER. Mr. Wheeler, repeat your last question. Mr. WHEELER. Would you relate briefly to the committee your employment record? Mr. LAWRIE. That was not the question that was put to me. Mr. WHEELER. It is the last question I asked. Mr. MOULDER. This question is now being propounded to you. Mr. LAWRIE. That was not the question that he asked me to answer, and that I would get my point of order. Mr. VELDE. I think I can clear up the matter. The question he is referring to is the chairman’s question as to membership in the Communist Party at the present time or at any time in the past. And I think the Chair very well stated that if you answered the question instead of refusing to answer, invoking the first and fifth amendments, then you would be given an opportunity, as you put it, to make a point of order, which is not within your rights at all. But now will you answer the question as to whether you were a member of the Communist Party or are now a member of the Communist Party? Let’s put it a different way. Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Mr. LAWRIE. I still would like to raise my point of order, and I think that I have that right, because, after all, this is your rules of procedure, and I think you would be interested in it, interested in that question. I didn’t write the rules of procedure. You gentlemen were the ones that helped to draw that up.