laid out by The Washington Post for which they have offered their story."

"Mr. Speaker, nigger is offensive. Niggerhead is offensive. And for a governor of one of the great states of our nation to hunt at Niggerhead ranch, it's offensive, and I think that I'm expressing the moral outrage of all Americans."

"A resolution merely asserting the position of the House with regard to an external issue cannot be used as a question of privilege," the acting Republican chair noted, before ruling that the resolution did not qualify as a question of privilege.

Jackson immediately appealed the ruling, but 230 Republicans (and a single Democrat) voted to table that appeal.

Herman Cain is the only Republican presidential candidate so far to say that he finds the term "Niggerhead" offensive.