the President by his own words has acknowledged that the reason he appointed these individuals had nothing to do with the only justification the Justice Department offered in support of his exercise of power.

The President must think that the rules he and his Senate Democratic colleagues developed to hamstring President Bush do not apply to him.

this is about employees, union members, not having their money taken from them and used against the very person they may want to see in office.

I think that this Subcommittee should consider whether or not this continued expansion is a good idea of giving more power to State attorneys general in other areas of law.

We believe--and I think the ranking member will join me in this--that we deserve those answers in at least as timely a fashion as your own IG gets.

Well, the taxpayers didn't get their--you know, they should have gotten a bigger take of that.

Transparency is the best thing.

But I didn't know. I didn't know.

We have caps in any contract with a private attorney of fees, a total cap of $50 million per matter.

The Department of Justice has repeatedly and over the course of many decades opined that an adjournment of significant length and particularly an adjournment of 3 days or less... does not constitute a recess.

President Obama's January 4, 2012, appointments are unconstitutional because they did not comply with the requirements for appointments set forth in the Constitution.

it is still the constitutional right and prerogative of the Senator to block a nominee for whatever reason they choose.

No President has ever unilaterally appointed an executive officer during a recess of less than 3 days.

I think that speaks for itself as well.

But that doesn't dismiss the fact that, even today, half of the board--approximately half of the board were selected by the administration to sit on the board.

This is about an important Commission who seems to be, based on some of the things we have said, not functioning the way we would want, maybe even use the term 'dysfunctional.'

There is nothing more organic than a law enforcement officer being gunned down because of a failure to protect.

My Committee just next door was systematically lied to by your own representatives.

The President has said he has full confidence in this Attorney General.

Brian Terry is dead today, in my opinion, because of this failed program.

The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act heard today by this Committee will help prevent race and sex discrimination against the unborn.

None of us may judge the value of a human being.

We protect innocent, unborn human lives that are targeted because of a bias against race and a bias against--we are calling it 'sex' now, aren't we, instead of 'gender.'

They don't have a voice for themselves. They never had the opportunity to breathe free air.

This notion that we can just have ideas that suggest that another group or another person is less than we are... is a failed notion.