Mark Meadows: “Let me give you a quote: ``Holding someone in contempt of Congress is one of the most serious and formal actions our…”

“Let me give you a quote: ``Holding someone in contempt of Congress is one of the most serious and formal actions our committee can take, and it should not be used as a political tool to generate press as part of an election-year witch hunt.'' Who is responsible for that quote? It is not Ranking Member Jim Jordan. It is not Leader McCarthy. It is not Conference Chair Liz Cheney. It is Chairman Elijah Cummings. Those are his words. What we need to do is understand that we are using this as a political tool, and we are better than that. We are better than that. I am going to quote from another letter from Chairman Cummings. At that time, he was not the chairman. Chairman Cummings wrote a letter to Speaker Boehner. He said, ``A fundamental problem with conducting such a partisan investigation is that the results are not even-handed but instead are skewed, incomplete, and inaccurate.'' Chairman Cummings went on further. He said: ``These deficiencies are magnified when we rush from a committee vote to a floor vote at breakneck speed, with little concern for the facts or the law.'' What was he referring to? He was referring to a contempt vote on Eric Holder. Here we are today, in the same venue. I am using the chairman's words, so I am going to make an appeal to the chairman, with the hope that my good friend opposite will heed these words because, in that same letter, he made a direct appeal to the Speaker of the House at that particular time.…”