Political Quotes

“I sat through hours and hours of an exercise which we are led to believe involves an illegal and inappropriate activity, a whistleblowing exercise based on insider knowledge. We are led to believe that these individuals involved were uncooperative and demonstrated a contempt of Congress so egregious that it requires this very special resolution, this very heavy-handed sanction. What I saw instead was a conscience and deliberate attempt to characterize these whistleblowers as criminals. What I saw was the securing of thousands of pages of information and extensive testimony, which provided the committee with all of the information they needed to conclude that while some questionable activity may have occurred, which should be and is being investigated by the Department of Justice, but that there was also some serious underpayments by the oil companies, but the committee did not pursue the question of the underpayments.”