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Trey Gowdy is a former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district, serving from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Gowdy gained national prominence as the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where he led investigations into the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. His tenure in Congress was marked by a focus on issues such as government oversight and national security. Prior to his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor and was known for his legal expertise and assertive questioning style during hearings.
I want to thank you for your leadership on this and a host of other issues on the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Speaker, this week has provided tragic reminders that the world is a dangerous place. We are targets even from people we have helped…
I believe you were with us, Mr. Speaker. I believe all of our colleagues were with us on the steps of the Capitol. We came together to remember 9/11 and what we lost and what we still grieve for as a Nation, Mr. Speaker, what we found as a…
So, General Caldwell, my question to you, with specific reference to this policy, one of the goals of the policy is to promote a positive image of coalition forces.
The Committee cannot do its job unless 100 percent of the documents are provided to this Congress.
It seems to me that on September the 3rd, 2011, an article that negatively portrayed the hospital and our involvement with it appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
You have to change the law. You don't just summarily decide that you are not going to enforce laws that have been duly passed.
I want to thank my good friend and colleague, Tim Scott. And I was in rapt attention when he was talking. It was almost as if he stole my thoughts. But I don't mind because he's a member of the freshman class. And many of us in the…
What the Democrats want to do, Madam Speaker, is bad citizenship. It is bad economics. It is bad for our fellow Americans. It remains to be seen if it's good electioneering or not. That remains to be seen. But duplicity is duplicity, no…
this memo gave you no more authority than you had before you drafted it, which leads some of us to conclude that it was a political memo.
I was hoping to keep that a secret, but I thank the gentlelady from Florida for outing me as a lawyer.
You know, we have to have confidence in the outcome, and you have to have confidence in the process. So why not do what lots of Members of the House and Senate have asked and have a special prosecutor? Why not do it?
So I thought maybe you and I together, with the help from our friends who are law professors, could come up with some examples on where there are limitations of people's First Amendment rights.
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash, legally and otherwise.
the Nation and my State, with over 16 percent uninsured, finds itself with no cost controls.
When ObamaCare was being rammed down the throat of the minority we were denied any witnesses.
When the Speaker said, we have to pass it to find out what is in it, we knew exactly what we were in for.
My question is simply this: What percentage of the truth do you want? When we're asked to negotiate; when the Attorney General comes and asks us for an extraordinary accommodation, whatever that means; when we're asked to compromise; my…
I thank the chairman. This is a sad day, Mr. Speaker, for those of us who respect the rule of law as the foundation of this Republic, for those of us who proudly worked for the Department of Justice, for those of us who believe the same…
No, he's partially correct. I think the initial request was for wiretap applications, which Rule 6-C of the 'Federal Rules on Criminal Procedure' does not allow anyone to give to anyone who's not part of the investigation or the trial.
If Congress has time to look into Major League Baseball, the BCS and invite Stephen Colbert to come to a committee hearing, surely to goodness, we have time to get answers on a fundamentally flawed lethal investigation like Fast and…
My point was to more illustrate the absurdity of asserting executive privilege for something you had no role in.
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