Jim Sensenbrenner

The Obama administration abandoned the rule of law under the guise of prosecutorial discretion.

Our immigration laws are an expression of our Nation's sovereignty. They are not suggestions.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to put in the record a letter from the Chief Justice of the California State Supreme Court, appointed by a Republican, I might add, to the Department of Homeland Security, asking that enforcement in…

I guess I can say that robbing a bank is a Federal offense, and I do not think that State and local law enforcement wait for the FBI to come to respond to the bank and try to catch the people who are committing a Federal felony in the…

I thank the chairman for holding this hearing, and I thank Senators Grassley and Leahy for crossing over to the wrong side of the tracks to testify here today.

I am very concerned that when a fact witness represents a client who might be the target of an investigation there is a conflict of interest.

Why did Ms. Mills request immunity? Was she hiding something or was she afraid that something would incriminate her that was on her laptop?

There seems to be different strokes for different folks on this. And that is what Americans are concerned about...

I do have a great deal of respect for you, but I think that there is a heavy hand coming from someplace else.

Did she request immunity?

Who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?

I think the American public is entitled to answers on this, particularly since we have to know...

Doesn't it concern you, as an investigator, that your chiefs in the Justice Department decided to become an immunity-producing machine for many people who would have been very key witnesses should there have been a prosecution?

Unless the Congress acts affirmatively by the end of next week, the Obama administration will turn over the core functions of the Internet to an international body. We cannot allow this to happen. Look at the consequences. Using domain…

I think that one of the things that all of us who work for the government are supposed to do is to engender and increase public trust of government institutions, which isn't going very well now.

That, in my opinion, is an impeachable offense.

How do I tell my conservative constituents that they should increase their trust in the IRS and that what happened to a couple of my groups will never, ever happen again?

Only after the House Judiciary Committee has conducted a fair, thorough, and detailed investigation will Committee Members be able to consider whether Articles of Impeachment might be warranted.

This Administration has made a career or maybe history of basically ignoring whatever Congress wants to do in furtherance of its constitutional oversight responsibility.

In terms of the intent of Major Jason Brezler and Secretary Clinton, one, Major Brezler, was doing it to save his colleagues; the other, Secretary Clinton, was to avoid transparency.

You have a burden, I think, to convince the American public that you don't have a double standard.

Now, the criminal statute uses the word 'gross negligence.' And I can't for the life of me figure out what the difference between 'gross negligence' and 'extremely careless' is unless one really wants to parse some words.

You are in charge of the Department of Justice. The buck stops with you.

I think that what Director Comey has said is that Secretary Clinton's actions essentially meet the definition for prosecution under the statute.

the misdemeanor statute does not require intent. It's a strict liability statute, and it relates to the removal and retention of classified information.