On the recordJune 28, 2012
I thank the chairman for his steadfast work on behalf of truth in trying to get to the bottom of Fast and Furious. Mr. Speaker, Syracuse, New York, in the heart of my district, is roughly 2,500 miles from Rio Rico, Arizona, where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was tragically shot and killed by an AK-47 assault rifle that the United States knowingly allowed into the hands of a suspected gun trafficker, yet every time I'm home, it is the issue first and foremost on the minds of my constituents. I listen to their calls, to their emails, and at our town halls. They want to know what happened, who knew what, and when did they know it. They ask me, they ask Washington, they ask the Department of Justice: How could the United States Government, the pillar of hope and freedom, have allowed for this, for one of their own representatives, one of their own good guys, to be so helplessly gunned down by a suspected criminal? Mr. Speaker, I'm embarrassed to say that after 562 days, I still don't have an answer for them. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
