Pursuant to House Rule XI, Clause 3 (a)(8)(A), and Committee Rules l7A(b)(1)(A), l7A(c)(1), and 17A(j), the Chair and Ranking Republican Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct have jointly decided to extend the matters regarding Representatives Robert Aderholt, G. K. Butterfield, Eliot Engel, Alcee Hastings, Solomon Ortiz, and Joe Wilson, which were transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on July 30, 2010. The Committee will announce its course of action in these matters on or before December 20, 2010.