On October 12, 2012, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subpoenaed 'all agendas, meeting notes, meeting minutes, and follow-up reports for the Attorney General's Advisory Committee that refer or relate to Operation Fast…

ATF Deputy Director William McMahon was the official in Washington, DC, primarily responsible for supervising Gillett and Newell.

The Privacy Act does not apply to hearings in Congress, but let us move on.

We amended the False Claims Act several years ago precisely to prevent the outcome like this.

you promised me and pledged to Congress that you would work to protect whistleblowers.

Our investigation uncovered that Mr. Perez repeatedly asked attorneys in your Division to not mention the deal with St. Paul.

Mr. President, I want to discuss my amendment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's release of farmers' information. By now, many of my colleagues have heard about the Environmental Protection Agency's release of individual…

Mr. President, when Richard Bender retires at the end of this month, the Senate will say farewell to one of its most respected, talented, and accomplished staff members. And I personally will be saying farewell to my longest serving…

I have been sitting here ruminating a little bit about the letter that was read. Very interesting, you know? Children with renal agenesis are not entitled to a chance at life? Children with Down syndrome are not entitled to a chance to…

So that is determined by the prospect of their survival, as well as their geography?

Dr. Martin Luther King said something that occurs to me in a very profound way. He said our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that really matter.

I think the wise choice to do is to preserve that flexibility and to keep those options open.

I think there are a lot of things being discussed here today that really aren't relevant to the big picture.

And as far as I can see there's no prospect that people that haven't committed felonies or people that haven't committed these three serious mysterious misdemeanors, there's no prospect that those that came here after December 31st, 2011…

That except for certain felons or those mysterious combinations of three misdemeanors, those are the exceptions in the bill for those that are unlawfully present in the United States.

I will tell you that I don't believe Barack Obama would be president today if Ronald Reagan hadn't made the most colossal mistake of his career in signing the 1986 amnesty act.

Milton Friedman said you cannot coexist with an open-borders policy and a cradle-to-grave welfare state.

Madam President, with the recent death of Dr. Elbert B. Smith--known to his friends simply as ``E.B.''--I lost a much beloved mentor, advisor, and friend. Obituaries in the Washington Post and elsewhere have captured the essential facts of…