Trey Gowdy

I think the President may have said it was a mistake. You have said that it was a mistake.

Fact: What gave rise to your appearance here today was many months ago a group called the Stop Hillary PAC, which aired an offensive ad during the Democratic debate showing the tombstone of Ambassador Stevens.

We are going to write that final definitive accounting of what happened at Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues but make no mistake, we are going to do it nonetheless.

We are going to be writing the final definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues, but make no mistake we are going to do it nonetheless.

We are the greatest experiment in self-governance the world has ever known.

Learning about the four people, two of whom you worked with and all four of whom we count as fellow Americans, is worth whatever amount of political badgering that may come my way.

You can tell your family it's a terrorist attack, but not the American people.

the purpose of this committee is to prosecute you, and there'll be time enough for that in the next year.

What I want to know is while violence was going up in Libya, why was our security profile going down? It wasn't even staying the same. It was going down. I want to know why certain things made it to your inbox madam secretary, but the…

I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his leadership on this and so many other issues of significance on the Judiciary Committee. His steady hand and brilliant legal mind are without equal on our committee. Mr. Speaker, I also want to…

when I hear the term 'sanctuary city,' the only sanctuary it ought to be is for law-abiding citizens.

What I find ironic is you are not willing to mandate Federal detainers, but you are willing to mandate that State and local law enforcement cannot assist you in enforcing immigration laws.

He is not any kind of person who would qualify for any type of version of deferred action in my book or earned path to citizenship. He is a criminal, a dangerous criminal multiple times over.

I mean, if they really are refusing to cooperate, surely we have to have something more than just going back to them and talking to them again.

I want to thank my friends Cedric Richmond and Hakeem Jeffries and others who are working on this issue, because they want a justice system that is colorblind.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 226, noes 186, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 19, as follows: [Roll…

I think we both learned something that night.

I listened to him ask Mr. George to respond to a letter that he had written asking for an update on something that clearly Mr. George has no jurisdiction over.

I want to ask you this. Mr. Koskinen, Commissioner Koskinen, in June 2014, said that there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

If this man is going to have to sit here and listen to accusations about his character and his partiality, then I think the least that can be done is that we can have a few questions to the Department of Justice.

I am curious why she, as a max-out donor to the President, was picked to head this criminal investigation.

I'd be interested in whether or not any grand jury subpoenas have been issued, either for documents or for witnesses.

We live in a country where process matters. The end does not justify the means, no matter how good the intentions.

But what he cannot do is make law by himself. That is the responsibility of the Congress.

The thread that holds the tapestry of our country together is respect for and adherence to the rule of law.