Xavier Becerra: “If I may direct a question to the distinguished chairman from the Committee on Rules, the chairman may know or others…”

“If I may direct a question to the distinguished chairman from the Committee on Rules, the chairman may know or others may know, there is a grave amount of concern brewing on the part of a number of Members of Congress with regard to the course that this investigation, now 11 months old, has taken with regard to the investigation in the 46th Congressional District and the alleged improprieties in voting. This resolution and, as quickly as I was able to glance at it, House Resolution 244 evidently calls upon the Department of Justice to initiate criminal proceedings against an organization which it deems noncompliant to a subpoena that was issued against it or to it by this Committee on House Oversight in regards to the Sanchez case. My understanding is that this organization is appealing the issuance of that subpoena on constitutional grounds. My further understanding is that there is some grave concern as to the reach of some of these subpoenas. My further understanding is there is grave concern that this committee, the Committee on House Oversight, has sent out more than 500,000 names with additional private information gathered from the Department of Justice, INS, and is now requesting assistance from the Secretary of State of California for further investigation of some 500,000 names.”