Political Quotes

“I would like to follow up on something our friend from Mississippi was just saying. I want to make it clear that I am not really interested in obstructing. I am not interested at all in obstructing. What I am interested in is getting to the truth about this nominee and others. Two years ago, an organization called the Center for Media and Democracy petitioned, under the Oklahoma open records law--it is a FOIA-like law at the State level--they asked for access to thousands of emails that were sent from or to the attorney general's office under Scott Pruitt. That was 2 years ago. They have repeatedly renewed that request over time, and it has not been granted. Why might emails be germane? Well, they are germane because many of the emails were with industries that have differences with the EPA and in some cases are involved in lawsuits, a number of which were sponsored by or joined in by Attorney General Pruitt. Two years after the request to see those emails was submitted to the attorney general's office, they had not seen one of them. A lawsuit was filed earlier this month asking the court--I think it is called the district court of Oklahoma, a State court--asking to see the emails and asking that the court intervene so that the Center for Media and Democracy would have access to the emails.…”