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Jim Himes is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as economic growth, healthcare, and national security during his tenure in Congress. Himes has been an advocate for democratic norms and transparency in government, often emphasizing the importance of the intelligence community in national discussions.
I was always struck, though I was a supporter of the JOBS Act, the best estimates I could get at the time was that the Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance regimes probably imposed in the neighborhood of $1 million to $3 million a year of…
They are certainly doing profound, profound damage to the ability of the FBI in the future to do its job and the ability of the CIA to recruit human agents around the world.
What Devin Nunes and what the President and what his people are doing right now is they are telling the world that when we feel like it we will expose sources, we will expose informants, we will expose assets and in dangerous places around…
It would certainly be illegal to do what Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows and the gang of defenders of the President have been doing which is been leaking this stuff.
They are just willing -- and it's kind of interesting because of course they are the leaders of the right wing faction, the conservative faction of the Republican Party which today brought down the all important farm bill for the…
Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan don't have three facts to rub together on this investigation.
They have said we're set all that aside traditionally we would have stood for law and order. And we are damaging the law and order institutions of this country in favor of very simply defending the President.
Well, it sort of depends on what we're talking about, Anderson. You know, there is no doubt that a number of Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been devoting themselves to the defense of the President.
The pressure being placed on the Department of Justice now is outrageous.
For a law and order Republican to be calling the FBI storm troopers, to be joining this effort to throw mud on this storied institution that we really need confidence in, really breaks my heart.
I represent the city of Parkland, Florida, where on Valentine's Day this year a young man walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR15 and killed 17 people in 6 minutes and 20 seconds.
This committee shapes our courts. It oversees the enforcement of our laws. It balances our cherished liberties with our need for security.
Without truth, there is no real democracy because democracy is about true choices and rational decisions.
When I came to the Congress almost 10 years ago, I was overwhelmed by the privilege of working here...
I appreciate the conversation on free speech, but I would like to inject another concept into today's debate. That is the concept of morality.
Well, the exhibit A for that was a merger of the truth-in-lending statement and the real estate settlement statement.
I very much worry about this. We've seen this pattern over and over and over again, which is you get the denial right up until the moment it happens.
Well, the chairman is just wrong about that. You know, the premise of the Republican memo was that the Steele dossier was essential, that it was absolutely critical, that it was the basis not just of the FISA application made around Carter…
You know, it's really important at the White House and that all of us maintain very strict discipline around security clearances.
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