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On the recordSeptember 16, 2020
I thank Chairman Biggs for yielding to me. In 1928, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said: ``In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. . . . Crime is contagious.'' Mr. Speaker, let's just look at the lawlessness perpetrated by our own government that the American people have had to endure and for which, regrettably, I have had a front-row seat for in my career here in Congress: Fast and Furious; the IRS attacks on conservatives; Benghazi, where four Americans died; Hillary Clinton's email scandal; the attacks on the press of James Rosen, James Risen, and Sharyl Attkisson; the unmasking of American citizens; Russia-gate; Ukraine- gate; and now, Obama-gate. Who has paid the time for the crime? What we are witnessing today in many of America's Democratic-run cities are the repercussions of years of lawlessness and amnesty in Washington, D.C. Recently, I had a woman leave me a voice mail saying she ``thinks it is totally okay for her to come with her gun and shoot me in the head.'' Only a couple days later, two L.A. County sheriffs were shot in the head. Do you know what happened as those deputies were fighting for their lives? The mob was blocking the entrance to the emergency room, chanting: ``We hope they die.…
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Paul Gosar
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