I believe passionately in the role of Congress.

It's not supposed to be different. Everyone is supposed to be treated equally under the law.

That's the way a banana republic acts. It's not the way the United States of America acts.

There's really no legal basis for these redactions.

I didn't create this mess. Hillary Clinton created this mess.

We're spending our time trying to pillory somebody about how she managed/handled her emails, while she was traveling the world on behalf of this country to 111 countries trying to restore the U.S. Credibility and foreign policy after the…

This is political theatre.

This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period of America's recent history when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the…

Did the witness involved, the primary witness here involving these emails, did she lie? No. Did she deceive? No. Did she evade? No. Did she obfuscate? No. Did she deliberately keep or withhold relevant information requested from the FBI…

No, not at all.

So would you say that someone who treats information with our spies abroad exceptionally carelessly should be trusted with a security clearance?

Leaking any signals intelligence can reveal our signals intelligence capabilities so that even if information collected by NSA seem innocuous.

So to some degree, protection of classified information is life or death?

Mr. Speaker, look around the world. In Europe, in Asia, in the Middle East, and in Africa, wherever you see evidence of radical Islam, that extremism can usually be traced to preachers of hate from Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has blood on…

Mr. Speaker, the majority party rejected the bipartisan legislation that came from the Senate with 68 votes. That is more than two-thirds of the Senate. Half of the Republicans in the United States Senate passed that bill over to us, and…

Reclaiming my time, they are not blocking anything. They passed a bill 68-30. They sent it here, and it was blocked from coming to the floor. And it would have passed. If you believe, as you asked me, do I believe, should we consider…

I would be glad to yield to the gentleman. Mr. McCARTHY. I would ask the gentleman to join with me, then, in requesting that the Democrats on the Senate--the filibuster denies the bill to even come up for debate, let alone it be voted for…

I do. That is why we didn't have a lot of debate because we were asking for Mr. King's bills to be brought to the floor, as I recall. So I do believe in that. Mr. McCARTHY. Will the gentleman yield to me?