Darrell Issa: “So we are making progress on the components of statehood and we believe, over time, that the Congress will see that the…”

I did ask unanimous consent that all Members be able to place extraneous material in the Record. I guess they are taking me up on it. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Schmidt).

It is a bunch of nonsense. The criminals, we hear them saying, we cannot go into Riverside County with drugs because they prosecute people there.

Shame on anyone who would say that. I was a first lieutenant about to be a captain when the war was declared against us 47 years ago. Iran has been at war with us and the world for 47 years. In 1982, I was a young captain when they killed…

Will the United States Congress side with the idea that we should be more democratic in our third branch, or that our third branch should remain more independent, less if not completely outside the will of the people at the moment?