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On the recordOctober 23, 2019
I thank the gentleman for yielding. What he didn't mention was the Benghazi Gowdy commission was the eighth Republican-led investigation of that matter. They all reached the same conclusion and found no evidence of wrongdoing; eight Republican-led, and they kept after it, over and over and over again. Why? As the minority leader said, on television, well, no, we got something out of it. We got some dirt on Hillary Clinton. I don't think it was dirt. It was the use of a computer which, by the way, some of the Trump family is doing the same thing--somewhat irrelevant. What is relevant is not all this stuff about fairness and this, that, and the other. We are following the Constitution. We are following the rules of this House. We are following the law, and every legal scholar that I have read asserts that. The only people who don't assert that are the people who are afraid of the facts, afraid of what has been done. I asked the gentleman questions: Do you think this is right? Do you think the President is above the law? He mentions the Mueller report. What he fails to mention and he just ignores is the Mueller report said there was evidence to suggest that there was the failure to follow the law and cooperate with the law, in other words, obstruction of justice. But he said Justice Department rules, of which he was an employee, do not provide for the ability to indict a President of the United States. That did not mean that there wasn't obstruction of justice.…
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Oct 23, 2019

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