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On the recordApril 4, 2019
I thank the gentleman. It was heavily debated in the Energy and Commerce Committee, as it should be, and I am sure it will be heavily debated on the floor. A number of these other issues that the gentleman mentioned, you know, we litigated those on the floor. The ones that went over to the Senate, some with only Democratic votes, you know, H.R. 1, for example, the Senate majority leader made it very clear that bill will not get any time on the Senate calendar. There are a lot of others that we would like to see real movement on. I know there was concern of a lot of people that there were three different committees in the House this week that spent the bulk of their time going after the President personally again. We have got the Mueller report coming. The summary has already been laid out and made it clear there was no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction of justice. We will see the report. What we talked about was that the report be filed in compliance with law, and the law makes it very clear that things like classified information aren't released. That is the law. I think we agreed that that is how it should be, that you don't release classified information. You release the pertinent date. I look forward to seeing that, and we will see that. But, then, it seemed like a continued assault in three different committees continuing to focus on harassing the President personally, as opposed to focusing on some of those policies.…
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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