Thomas Massie

If we're going to revisit things that have been assumed for 100 years, why should we assume a tribunal should be deciding what's fair?

Whether the vaccine caused the issue or not, can you throw somebody out of a trial and not say what happened to them in the--

I don't think there was any science behind that decision. Maybe there's other things driving it, but it certainly wasn't science.

We should applaud the outstanding work initially under former President Trump's orders and then carried through under President Biden.

So, Congress has paid over $17 million in hush money for sexual misconduct inside of the offices in these buildings.

So, the irony here is this is going to be vacated. This trial was all about trying to influence an election using the process as the punishment.

There is an amazing construction of some kind of crime here, but when we dig down to the bottom of it...

If you want to blame somebody for high gasoline prices, look at the OPEC cartel again...

And, here we are, facing a second civil war--this one cultural--led by a pro-White, pro-Christian agenda. In other words: 'Make America Great Again.'

We're here because MAGA Republicans are doing the bidding of dark money groups with ties to former Trump Administration officials, the oil and gas industry, and far-right donors like Leonard Leo and the Koch brothers.

I don't even think there's a whiff of it, to tell you the truth.

It seems like you have created an office that would require an Act of Congress.

You have created an office in the U.S. Government that does not exist without authorization from Congress.

Wouldn't you agree that U.S. attorneys are held to the Appointments Clause because they are delegated some part of the sovereign power of the United States?

Was Jack Smith nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate?

I ask unanimous consent to submit for the record an Amicus Brief by the former Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Are you willing to confirm that the pipe bombs planted at the Capitol Hill Club and the DNC on January 6th couldn't have gone off with a 60-minute kitchen timer if they were placed the day before?

That is a policy. That has not been through some kind of rulemaking. That is a policy. You can say that to the media, but you can't say it to Congress. We created your department.

Well, that is not an acceptable answer. We have asked you this months ago and you just send us a letter saying you can't answer that.

It is hard to say that he is independent if these meetings are in fact going on, isn't it?

I think it is kind of a fallacy that we--Congress can create this special office and that it will be free of any political bias.

Jack Smith is acting like a partisan hack.

I object. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard. The Clerk will continue to read. The Clerk continued to read. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies. Motion to Table

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 359, nays 43, answered ``present'' 7, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 188]…

When are you going to produce these? Why are you not producing these? Why are you even--why are you pretending that these emails don't exist?