Bob Menendez: “should Hermandad Mexicana Nacional comply with the legal subpoena? Yes. But should the Republicans on the Committee on…”

“should Hermandad Mexicana Nacional comply with the legal subpoena? Yes. But should the Republicans on the Committee on House Oversight have given Bob Dornan the power to issue that subpoena in the first place? Absolutely not. Case in point: Scott Moxley, a reporter in Orange County and a former Federal Election Commission employee, had the temerity to write some disfavorable articles about Mr. Dornan. In response, Mr. Dornan issued a subpoena against him. In addition to this, according to published reports in Roll Call and in papers filed with the Committee on House Oversight, Mr. Dornan went to Scott Moxley's editor to try to get him fired, called the FEC in an attempt to dig up some dirt on him, which he was not able to do, and even resorted to harassing Mr. Moxley's father. So forgive me if we have a little trouble with a process that gives Bob Dornan subpoena power over anybody. Of all of the cases in which this Congress could step in and demand that legal action be taken, of all of the unacceptable outrages and defiance of our laws that take place in this country every day, that the majority party would choose Mr. Dornan's subpoena to take this extraordinary step is beyond me. Does this represent their view of the priorities of the American people? It was the Reagan administration that successfully challenged Congress' attempts to tell the U.S. Attorney what to do, and that is why my colleagues on the other side amended it earlier.”