Recommending That the House of Representatives Find United States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in Contempt of Congress for Refusal to Comply with A Subpoena Duly Issued By the Committee on the Judiciary

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, this is absurd. This is Fellini in the Congress.

Comparing what Joe Biden did to what the other fellow that preceded him in office did in keeping documents in Mar-a-Lago in his bathroom and out in the fancy rooms where all of his billionaire friends go is like comparing somebody that writes a bad check by $2, an overdraft, to somebody who is a bank robber with guns, weapons, and machine guns going into banks and robbing money.

Biden was a sympathetic figure, said Mr. Hur, a Republican, who Merrick Garland gave the duty to study that case. He was a sympathetic figure.

You don't convict a crime unless there is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Mr. Hur found there could not be guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

What the other fellow did, refusing to comply with requests to give the classified documents up, refusing and refusing and then having to have a search warrant to find them, hundreds of documents, not for the purpose of writing a book--for somebody who can't even read a book--was for purposes that we don't know. We don't know what they were used for, but they were taken illegally and improperly.

Merrick Garland is an honorable and good man who should be in the College of Cardinals and not being tried for contempt by this Felliniesque----

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I have not seen a more diligent and honorable Attorney General in the time I have served in Congress. Merrick Garland is a superb individual, and this is just projection, trying to throw things off from the other fellow, Trump, and put them on Biden.

There is no comparison. Once again, it is like comparing a bank robber to a guy who wrote an overdraft.

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