On the recordDecember 20, 2017
Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Ted Lieu for his excellent presentation. I would ask one question, and I hope that the law professor in me isn't showing too much, but I wanted to ask Mr. Ted Lieu about one thing he said at the beginning. Mr. Ted Lieu made the point very well that Mr. Mueller is a distinguished law enforcement officer, who is also Republican, and he was appointed by a Republican. Mr. Rosenstein is another distinguished and well-respected law enforcement official, who himself had been appointed by Attorney General Sessions, who is a Republican. {time} 2015 All of that is true. But then Mr. Lieu said this is not a Democratic investigation, which certainly it is not. It is a Republican investigation. But wouldn't it be more appropriate to say it is a law enforcement investigation? And if you want to be searching for some kind of partisan tilt, you are going to find that these are Republicans, not Democrats.
