Robert Dornan: “I thought I would take this opportunity during a special order break in the legislative business of the House, because…”

“I thought I would take this opportunity during a special order break in the legislative business of the House, because we will have an important vote here at some point today to continue the Government, since tomorrow is the shutdown date, to discuss the abuse of the word ``bully'' in the press over the last few months, an absolute bass-ackwards concept of what bullying is. When President Lyndon Baines Johnson used the IRS and the FBI to intimidate people, it was considered bullying in the extreme and you would even occasionally see, in conservative and liberal circles, the use of the word ``fascism,'' as in police state tactics. When President Nixon corrupted the Central Intelligence Agency, a body formed to gather intelligence only outside the boundaries of the 50 United States and its territories, you saw much comment using the word ``fascism.'' But when the current occupants of the White House corrupt the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a way to intimidate and attempt to destroy the lives of the seven people in the travel office, to procure government contracts for Hollywood cronies and/or second cousins who are just 23 years old to run an office that had a bipartisan and press approval rating through 4 or 5 or 6 Presidents, that is bullying in the extreme.”