Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"I deem it my duty to recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress."

"I hasten to lay them before both Houses of Congress."

"Congress will learn from these papers the present state of the discussion on that transaction, and that it is to be transferred to this place by the mission of a special minister."

"They contain the whole of what has passed between the two Governments on the subject of the outrage committed by the British ship Leopard on the frigate Chesapeake."