I ask unanimous consent that we divide the time equally between now and 5:30 and the vote be at 5:30. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would ask unanimous consent that the time be divided equally but am I correct if we did the full 60 minutes, we would start the first vote at 5:35 p.m.? The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.

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I am concerned about what happened. It happened here.

I find this fact even more disturbing than the findings of this report, and we have an obligation to hold the Justice Department accountable for what went wrong here.

Prosecutorial misconduct cannot be tolerated. I would not tolerate it when I was a prosecutor.

the integrity of the whole criminal justice system in my belief is diminished.

I share the President's heartfelt feelings and sense that there needs to be a thorough investigation that gets to the truth.

It was Attorney General Holder who decided, based upon his own review of the matter, to seek to dismiss the indictment.

Prosecutors bear a very special responsibility in the system.

I never knew him to break his word. I never knew him to tell me something that was not accurate and true.

The integrity of our criminal justice system relies heavily on prosecutors.

Defendants have to be afforded vigorous and competent counsel.

I think the prosecutor is in many ways the most important person in the whole criminal justice system.

I have great concerns about this case, as you can probably gather.

The Justice Department has also taken recent steps to improve its training of prosecutors.

I think Matthew Friedrich--and I say so in the report--quite sensibly and understandably took an interest in this high-visibility prosecution of a senior sitting United States Senator.

I have said many times and in a lot of different contexts that our criminal justice system is the envy of the world.

A prosecutor has a unique position in the system. They are not just there to win.

A criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial, regardless of who he is, is fundamental to our criminal justice system.

I think it is wrong to hold those Department lawyers to a lower standard than workaday lawyers outside of the Department.

It is a constitutional duty. It is also common sense.