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Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has played a significant role in various legislative efforts and is known for his work on national security and intelligence issues. He served as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he was involved in high-profile investigations and oversight of intelligence agencies.
The greater danger, frankly, to the country is what is going on around the nation. People pushing the former president's big lie about the election ushering in a new slate of laws to strip independent elections officials of their duties…
If witnesses do not show up, we will hold them in criminal contempt. We will vote them in contempt in the House. And we will refer them for prosecution.
It was really astounding to me that someone as deeply flawed as Donald Trump in a matter of four short years or less could completely remake one of America`s great political parties in his flawed image but he did.
What did we know, what did the planners know, what did the president know about who was showing up? And was it part of the plan that, if they couldn’t get the vice president to violate the Constitution and decertify the results from this…
If there are members of Congress -- and I think there are -- that have relevant information about the planning of that day, that were on the phone with the president during that day, that can shed light on what the president knew, when he…
It’s obviously a very different situation now, and we will hope and count on the Biden Justice Department and the new attorney general to enforce the rule of law.
We want to get to the bottom of all the facts, what led up to that insurrection, what planning went into it, who was organizing the rally, what expectation they had about potential violence or planned violence that day.
One of the central objectives of our committee is to write a comprehensive report with recommendations about how do we prevent this from happening again.
We do have tools that we didn’t have in the last administration in that we can also hold people in criminal contempt and make a referral to the Justice Department.
Our committee has been unanimous really on all the steps we have taken. There is a remarkable degree of commonality in terms of wanting to get to the truth, being ready to use whatever tools, tactics, techniques we have to get to the truth.
The committee may well consider criminal referrals for anybody who obstructs the committee`s work or who specifically refuses a subpoena.
No one is off the table. We`re going to determine what went wrong in the lead up to January 6, we`re going to find out who was involved who was knowledgeable, what roles they played in the planning, what expectation they had of violence…
It is not that complicated. The current posse comitatus laws prohibit violation of this rule against using the military for law enforcement purposes but apply it only to two branches of the military, the Army and the Air Force. This would…
I urge a ``yes'' vote on this amendment to increase transparency into the proceedings in Guantanamo and allow the victims of 9/11 to observe the proceedings, as many of them would like to, and I yield back the balance of my time.
We’re going to be making a series of recommendations on how to protect our democracy going forward from efforts like the one that you just heard described where they would flout the spirit of the law and put our country into a…
It strengthens penalties for violating the Hatch Act so that the White House can’t hold a political convention on White House grounds or dragoon federal employees into campaign workers.
This bill is really modeled after what Congress did post-Watergate when they enact enacted a whole series of reforms designed to address the abuses that took place during the Nixon administration.
It shouldn`t matter who the President of the United States is. We should want that President not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves.
It shouldn`t matter who the president of the United States is. We should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves.
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