The rule that's being violated is that every witness owes truthful testimony to Congress.

your decision was also struck down on the basis of the Enumerations Clause, so it was constitutional as well.

I was a little disappointed. You refused to answer questions about conversations with Attorney General Sessions.

This committee does not accept the argument that you can withhold documents or testimony from us because you have other separate litigation.

The Supreme Court has been perfectly clear in a series of cases... that the fact of ongoing litigation is not a valid grounds for withholding documents from Congress.

this policy may not actually advance the cause that I think is being purported to advance

Thank you so much. The gentlelady yields, and I come now to the ranking member of the subcommittee, Mr. Roy.

I do have some concerns that I think we should address and look forward to hearing about today.

Chairman Raskin, your state legislature in Maryland was next, banning the box for public employment in 2013.

We must remember that our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

Now if there is evidence that someone is illegally discriminating against African Americans in the Federal hiring process, the remedy for that civil rights violation is to bring the full force of the law down on that individual.

I want to thank you for the extraordinary work you are doing as Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee.

Do you find some irony in the fact that we voted--or at least some people voted for a $1.5 trillion tax cut to the wealthiest interests in the country and then come back and complain about a $1.5 million increase to go after the corruption…

I would urge Mr. Jordan to study the history of his own party because this became an issue in the Civil War, and it was the Republican Party which stood up for the right of noncitizens to vote.

At Sunday school, Jewish kids learn the imperishable words of Hillel, who said: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself only, then who am I? And if not now, when? Today, we must all stand strongly and proudly for…

I thank the gentleman for those thoughtful comments. The ranking member of the House Administration Committee contends that we talked about this in the House Administration Committee which, indeed, we did, and it was precisely that…

I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time. Our friends across the aisle are nothing if not courageous. They have got the brazen temerity to raise the question of process after running the most closed Congress in the history…

And I rise to offer this amendment to H.R. 1. For decades, the law prevented business corporations from engaging in campaign spending. But the Supreme Court destroyed that prohibition with its watershed decision in 2010, in the Citizens…

I am proud also that I am a Member of the House of Representatives that adopted the most comprehensive and forceful denunciation of anti-Semitism in the history of the U.S. Congress on March 7, 2019.

I encourage, everyone to actually read the terms of this landmark reform legislation, which insists upon ethics reform at the Supreme Court, ethics reform in the executive branch, empowering the Office of Government Ethics to have real…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 383, after line 19, add the following new section: SEC. 4502. ASSESSMENT OF SHAREHOLDER PREFERENCES…

Why is it important that investigators and adjudicators assess these concerns before a security clearance is granted to an applicant?

I'm very troubled that the White House and other parts of the administration have failed to provide us information about the process, as required by a statute that was signed into law by President Trump himself.

I think James Madison said it best long ago, which is that knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

Tomorrow the Board may face a condition unprecedented in its 40-year history. All three Board seats will become vacant when my term expires.