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On the recordNovember 18, 2025
I am going to limit my remarks to two things I know very well: number one, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and what we need to do to preserve that very special environment; and, number two, the character of Delegate Stacey Plaskett. On HPSCI, I have served for 10 years, and with Chairman Turner and now with Chairman Crawford, we have fought for that decade to keep the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence immunized from the sewage that flows through this Chamber, the partisan attacks, the hideousness. By and large, we have been pretty successful, with one exception, when that committee got involved in the political investigation around Ukraine in the first Trump administration.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Addressing the integrity of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Delegate Stacey Plaskett's character.

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