Jay Inslee: “it has been said that this institution is to be a watchdog. In fact, this resolution asks the people's House to become…”

“it has been said that this institution is to be a watchdog. In fact, this resolution asks the people's House to become an attack dog, an attack dog for the oil and gas industry. This is the people's House, and it is a sad day when we turn on the people who expose the fraud to the American people and seek to punish them. The Watergate investigation has been inveighed as a proud moment of Congress. If this party had been running the Watergate investigation, you would not have subpoenaed Halderman and Ehrlichman and gone after them. You would have investigated Frank Wills, the guy who discovered the burglary. You are barking up the wrong tree, and it is a sad day. I am proud of the House of Representatives, and I want to warn Members against this resolution for two reasons: number one, if this passes, and if this goes to the criminal justice system, this House will be embarrassed. I am going to tell you why: unlike many of the speakers today, I was in these hearings, and I saw, time after time after time, the majority party ignore the rules of the House of Representatives. When the judicial system sees this, they will call foul; and our House will be embarrassed by this travesty. If you want to know why these people did not answer some of these questions, it is because they violated the rules of the House.”