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Insisting Department of Justice Comply with Requests and Subpoenas

Floor Speech

Date: June 28, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Criminal Justice Elections

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Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding and, more importantly, for this resolution.

This is real simple. It is about our branch of government, the legislative branch, getting the information we are entitled to get as a separate and coequal branch of government to do our constitutional duty of oversight.

We have requested information from DOJ. They haven't given it to us. We have issued subpoenas. They haven't complied with subpoenas.

We have caught them hiding information. They redacted the fact, tried to hide the fact that Peter Strzok, a key player in both the Clinton investigation and Russian investigation, was friends with one of the FISA court judges. That was redacted for no other reason than it was embarrassing.

And, of course, we know that the deputy attorney general threatened staff members on the House Intelligence Committee.

So this is real simple. Enough is enough. Give us the documents we are entitled to have. Let's have the full weight of the House behind a resolution saying you have got 7 days to get your act together.

Let me just say one other thing. When have you ever seen an agency where the top people who ran the Clinton investigation and the Russian investigation have had this happen to them: James Comey has been fired; Deputy Director Andy McCabe fired, lied three times under oath, faces a criminal referral; Chief of Staff Jim Rybicki has resigned; General Counsel Jim Baker demoted, then left the FBI; Lisa Page, FBI counsel, demoted, then left the FBI; Peter Strzok, deputy head of counterintelligence, demoted, and was escorted out of the FBI just days ago.

When have you ever seen that happen? And they won't give us the information we are asking for.

Something is going on over there. This is a resolution that is needed, because it, again, will be the full House of Representatives saying enough is enough. Give us the information so we can do our job and get answers for the American people.

That is why I applaud the gentleman's efforts and support this resolution, and encourage every single Member of this body, as an institution, to vote for this resolution.

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