Jerry Nadler: “Before I speak on the LEOSA Reform Act, let me express my deep disappointment in the behavior of the Judiciary Committee…”

“Before I speak on the LEOSA Reform Act, let me express my deep disappointment in the behavior of the Judiciary Committee majority. The Judiciary Committee is now considering a resolution to hold in contempt the Attorney General of the United States for refusing to submit certain audio recordings to the committee. I think it is a deeply wrong request. I have expressed my opinion in committee. I am not going to go through it again here. The point is, we have a series of Judiciary Committee bills now, and the Judiciary Committee is meeting on that resolution now. Members of the Judiciary Committee who may want to speak on this series of bills we are going to be considering now cannot because they are trapped in the Judiciary Committee considering the contempt resolution. I cannot vote against the contempt resolution because I am stuck here. It is normally the practice that when you have committee business on the floor, you suspend the committee meeting so that people can do their work. I very much protest that the committee is still meeting while we have committee bills on the floor so that I must choose between dealing with these bills or voting on the contempt citation, and other members of the committee cannot be here to debate these bills. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the LEOSA Reform Act.…”