May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 7 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining.

As I close, let me say this. The chairman has made some allegations that things were not true--and I guess he's not talking about us, but I guess he's talking about the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association in a letter that…

I urge Members to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

How much time do we have, Mr. Speaker? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 2 minutes remaining.

I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).

when, say, that female is deprived of an opportunity she should have gotten, then she can't do for her children and, to me, that is criminal.

I just want to say first of all that I associate myself with the words of the gentlelady from the District of Columbia. I think she said it quite well. Mr. Speaker, we must be about the business of guarding this thing we call the…

I just want to finish this. I listened to you very carefully. You had an outstanding speech, but I want to just make sure we're clear on something. The senior executives suspected right now of criminal activity may already be removed or…

justice delayed is justice denied, and if we can find remedies quickly and get people back and give them a chance that they should have had, we need to do that as fast as possible.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. The gentleman is inaccurate. The fact is that when the bill came in, at first, we did apparently have certain exceptions for law enforcement, consistent with these concerns. That's not in the…

Before yielding to Mr. Lynch, I just want to say one thing. I listened to the gentleman, and I have the utmost respect for him. But I remind him that this is American jurisprudence that has had the concept of ``innocent until proven…

the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I yield myself 10 seconds. Just listening to the arguments, this is why, Mr. Speaker, it would have been quite helpful to have had a hearing on the bill so that we could flesh through some of these concerns. With that, I yield 2 minutes to…

I'm going to yield the 45 seconds we have remaining to Mr. Lynch to close.

I am no longer surprised, but I am saddened that the Republicans are wasting the last few days before the August recess to vote on bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the 40th time and to continue their campaign to blame our…

I want it to be the very best that it can be.

This is despite the fact that the committee has already conducted 16 interviews, reviewed thousands of documents, and found no evidence of White House involvement.

We want this investigation to go forward, and so that is very important for us.

Let me be very clear. We come today to seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

We have got to get to the bottom of this.

The fact is that there is no evidence before this committee to support these claims--none.

Can we then stop within the interviews asking for party affiliation?

This is purely cases that unfortunately Cincinnati didn't have enough guidance on, that the (c)(4) area is a very, very difficult area and there is not much guidance.

I think we need to be very careful with those kinds of words.

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