Mark Souder: “reclaiming my time, clearly the Vice President of the United States first was warned by the legal counsel in a memo that…”

“reclaiming my time, clearly the Vice President of the United States first was warned by the legal counsel in a memo that has been circulated all over the country in newspapers. He was a Member of this body in the House and knew that we could not do it. Then he was a Member of the other body, the Senate, and told that he could not do it. He has no excuse. We are tired of hearing these kinds of excuses. The gentleman read earlier from the Omaha World Herald, and in Hotline today, now admittedly, these are audio only; I do not have any video, and also, I only have highlights from some of these editorials. But if I was at the White House, I would not complain about me editing. They are not in a real strong position here. But I want to show the reaction around the country and express my disappointment with, quite frankly, a lot of members in the other party for not agreeing to speak up. As my colleagues will see if they watch C-SPAN and the upcoming opening statements of the members of this committee, there were a lot of excuses and a lot of dancing around about how everybody does it, which, A, is not true; how we ought to be investigating Congress, which we have no jurisdiction over, we are an oversight committee on the White House and the executive branch. Our duty is to look into misconduct. That is what our committee's charge is to do and we are going to do that.”