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Adam Schiff

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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.

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Dec 18, 2017

Well, he apparently forgets the fact that in realtime what happened last year was the director of the FBI talked about an investigation into Hillary Clinton, even 10 days or less before an election, but did not tell the country that there…

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Dec 14, 2017

The attacks on Mueller, DOJ and FBI this week make it clear they plan to go after Mueller's investigation aggressively and soon.

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Dec 3, 2017

If she said to the Senate, I'm not aware of these conversations, and she was one of those senior transition officials and those e-mails if they're accurate that have been publicly released, it certainly appears that was a directly false…

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Dec 3, 2017

I think rather he would make a report to Congress that might say this is what I found and if he found evidence of obstruction, here's the evidence.

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Dec 3, 2017

I think he's dead in the water in terms of getting any further relaxation of his conditions of effectively home confinement.

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Dec 3, 2017

I don't think the Congress would ever tolerate a president willfully obstructing justice.

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Dec 3, 2017

It would be an absurd result to say that the president could interfere with investigations involving himself or others potentially.

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Dec 3, 2017

I believe the president is no more above the law than any other American.

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Dec 3, 2017

I have to think that unless he has really incompetent counsel, his counsel must not have been aware that he was doing this.

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Oct 31, 2017

I'm particularly disturbed, Anderson, that the president and White House have violated Department of Justice policy by intervening with the Department of Justice in order to push forward this investigation of Hillary Clinton. It's yet…

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Oct 31, 2017

I think we are seeing in Congress a response to what Bannon is urging, what the president is urging. I don't think it's in the interests of our investigation and I do think it's an effort to distract and place the focus elsewhere.

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Oct 31, 2017

No, I don't think that's accurate at all. But, of course, this is part of a pattern that we have seen where -- when any of these contacts are exposed, the Trump campaign tries to diminish their significance.

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Oct 23, 2017

We've got to get together on this stuff.

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Oct 23, 2017

We should be bipartisan about the integrity of our elections.

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Oct 23, 2017

It's very, very important to our democracy. They hacked the RNC and the DNC, both parties.

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Oct 2, 2017

We still don't know if anyone in the Trump campaign was involved in the Russia ad campaign effort.

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Jul 28, 2017

Happy birthday. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), who will now sing Happy Birthday for you.

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Jul 28, 2017

I want to express my agreement with Leader Pelosi's comments on the continuing need for the appointment of an independent commission. An independent commission would have the dedicated focus, the distance from any potential political…

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Jul 28, 2017

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 is a solid, bipartisan bill, one that garnered unanimous approval in the committee by voice vote. I thank my committee colleagues and the entire HPSCI staff for their collaborative…

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Jul 28, 2017

This year's Intelligence Authorization Act was a bipartisan effort, and I am pleased to vote for it today. With this legislation, we reaffirm that all of our government's activities, including ones that are, by necessity, classified, must…

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Jul 23, 2017

If that offer to come back is not accepted that they would reserve the right to subpoena him, to force him to come back.

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Jul 13, 2017

Plainly this Russian attorney, this other third party, if they were present, they were there to both deliver a message, as well to receive a message. And, plainly, Moscow understood only too well that this is conduct that the Trump…

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Jul 12, 2017

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 347. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes…

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