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On the recordOctober 18, 2019
Mr. Scalise ought to know this is not like any other one. I am not sure about Johnson. There was a special prosecutor in the Nixon case. Nixon fired the first one, Mr. Cox, you will recall. Mr. Jaworski succeeded him. There was a special prosecutor in the Clinton case. All of them did-- not exactly, because all the Republicans are in the room that are on the committee, members of the committee. It is a Select Committee on Intelligence. The Intelligence Committee operates that way, consistent with their rules and with your rule. You continue to say we ought to change the rule. It is your rule that we adopted in our own rules. You didn't like it. You liked it when it was applied to us, but you don't like it when it is applied to you.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Oct 18, 2019

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