The blanket protective privilege claim wasn't grounded in the law. It was payback because the White House and DOJ didn't want to comply with the subpoena.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleagues for being here, and I want to start tonight out. We are going to spend an hour highlighting what many of us on Capitol Hill view as one of the largest threats in the 21st century, and that…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Arizona, who pointed out some great things. We are going to talk about the South China Sea, or the East Sea, and what China has done. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Missouri for her comments. Those are very well pointed-out facts that the American people, if they knew this was going on, would stop buying ``made in China.'' Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania, who is a brigadier general, and he has been on the front lines, for those remarks. General Leave

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Florida…

I humbly suggest this committee send a similar bipartisan letter to the White House asking for an immediate clarification of U.S. policy on Libya.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to continue on the rise of China and why it is important. I think we have heard some great ideas today and some great dialogue, but this is something the American people need to pay attention to. This is something…

All right. You are singing a great song that I have shared with the AmChams, I have shared with other countries, and it is our philosophy of ABC. When you go to manufacture, it is anywhere but China.

You are leading into where I was going. In 1990, President Clinton recommended China's entry into the WTO on a developing nation status. Yet today, they are the second largest economy in the world--second to the U.S.--and they are still a…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman coming out. I see this as a series of Special Orders on China, because the American people need to know this. When they go to a shelf and buy something that is cheap, and they look at that and it…

Mr. Speaker, it is, and I hope the gentleman participates in these. Because that day of reckoning is here, and if we don't do it today, it is only going to get worse. So this is something that we have to come together as Americans. It is…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his time. The gentleman brought up a good point about China. If you read about the Chinese Communist Party, the role of the individual is to serve the party. There is no higher entity in China other…

Mr. Speaker, I will try to tighten this up. Mr. Speaker, China, in the South China Sea, has started claiming property that is not theirs. It goes off to nine historical lines that come from antiquity, from 300 or 400 years ago. And they…

This hearing will come to order.

The Attorney General came out in front of the American people and claimed transparency that the President didn't hold any documents back.

I think the United States has a unique role as a relatively neutral broker.

the D.C. Circuit decided this exact issue when it held that the White House waives its claims of privilege in regard to specific documents that it voluntarily reveals to third parties outside the White House.