Political Quotes

“let me just reiterate briefly the issue which we have to decide today, and that is very simply whether or not this committee, the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, and whether or not this Congress will give to a committee chairman of an investigative committee the right to unilaterally issue subpoenas for people to appear for depositions. Will we decide to do something that has never ever been done before in the history of Congress? And I would like to, if I can, piggyback briefly on what the previous speaker from Wisconsin said. The issue fundamentally is one of fairness and the credibility and the integrity of this investigation. If this investigation does not have the fundamental fairness and integrity, then the fruits of the investigation will not be believed; and they will not be credible and, therefore, they will be tainted. These are serious allegations. I love my country more than I love my political party, and I am as outraged by some of these allegations as most Americans ought to be. But before we decide whether these allegations are in fact true, let us make sure that we find and have a factfinding committee that is going to do this in a fair way that includes all Members. This ought to be a joint undertaking to find the truth, not a partisan effort to find dirt.”