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                    FULL COMMITTEE BUSINESS MEETING: 

                   MARKUP OF RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING 

                   THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

                  FIND UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL 

                   MERRICK B. GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF 

                  CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH 

                     A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE 

                       COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND 

                             ACCOUNTABILITY 


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                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                    ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS

                             SECOND SESSION

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               COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

                    JAMES COMER, Kentucky, Chairman

Jim Jordan, Ohio                     Jamie Raskin, Maryland, Ranking 
Mike Turner, Ohio                        Minority Member
Paul Gosar, Arizona                  Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of 
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina            Columbia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin            Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
Michael Cloud, Texas                 Gerald E. Connolly, Virginia
Gary Palmer, Alabama                 Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois
Clay Higgins, Louisiana              Ro Khanna, California
Pete Sessions, Texas                 Kweisi Mfume, Maryland
Andy Biggs, Arizona                  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
Nancy Mace, South Carolina           Katie Porter, California
Jake LaTurner, Kansas                Cori Bush, Missouri
Pat Fallon, Texas                    Shontel Brown, Ohio
Byron Donalds, Florida               Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico
Scott Perry, Pennsylvania            Robert Garcia, California
William Timmons, South Carolina      Maxwell Frost, Florida
Tim Burchett, Tennessee              Summer Lee, Pennsylvania
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia      Greg Casar, Texas
Lisa McClain, Michigan               Jasmine Crockett, Texas
Lauren Boebert, Colorado             Dan Goldman, New York
Russell Fry, South Carolina          Jared Moskowitz, Florida
Anna Paulina Luna, Florida           Rashida Tlaib, Michigan
Nick Langworthy, New York            Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts
Eric Burlison, Missouri
Mike Waltz, Florida

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  * Statement for the Record; submitted by Rep. Connolly.

  * Comer Campaign email; submitted by Rep. Moskowitz.

  * Transcript, October 8, 2023, Special Counsel Hur; submitted 
    by Rep. Raskin.

  * Transcript, October 9, 2023, Special Counsel Hur; submitted 
    by Rep. Raskin.

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                    FULL COMMITTEE BUSINESS MEETING: 
                   MARKUP OF RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING 
                   THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
                  FIND UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL 
                   MERRICK B. GARLAND IN CONTEMPT OF 
                  CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH 
                     A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE 
                       COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND 
                             ACCOUNTABILITY 

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                         Thursday, May 16, 2024

                     U.S. House of Representatives

               Committee on Oversight and Accountability,

                                                   Washington, D.C.

    The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 8:08 p.m., in 
room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. James Comer 
[Chairman of the Committee] presiding.
    Present: Representatives Comer, Jordan, Gosar, Foxx, 
Grothman, Cloud, Palmer, Higgins, Sessions, Biggs, Mace, 
LaTurner, Fallon, Donalds, Perry, Timmons, Burchett, Greene, 
Boebert, Fry, Luna, Langworthy, Burlison, Waltz, Raskin, 
Norton, Lynch, Connolly, Krishnamoorthi, Mfume, Ocasio-Cortez, 
Porter, Bush, Brown, Stansbury, Garcia, Frost, Lee, Casar, 
Crockett, Goldman, Moskowitz, Tlaib, and Pressley.
    Chairman Comer. The Committee will please come to order. A 
quorum is present.
    Without objection, the Chair is authorized to declare a 
recess at any time.
    Pursuant to Committee Rule 5(b) and House Rule XI, Clause 
2, the Chair may postpone further proceedings today on the 
question of approving any measure or matter or adopting an 
amendment on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are 
ordered.
    Now pursuant to notice, I call up a report containing a 
resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find 
Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for 
refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by this 
Committee.
    The clerk will report the report, which has been 
distributed in advance.
    The Clerk. A report containing a House resolution 
recommending that the House of Representatives find Attorney 
General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusal to 
comply with a subpoena is duly issued by this Committee.
    Chairman Comer. I ask unanimous consent that the report be 
considered as read and open for amendment at any point.
    Without objection, so ordered.
    The Chair recognizes himself to offer an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
    The clerk will please report the amendment.
    The Clerk. An amendment in the nature of a substitute 
offered to the Contempt Report as offered by Mr. Comer of 
Kentucky.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, the amendment is 
considered as read, and the substitute will be considered as 
original text for the purposes of further amendment.
    I now recognize myself for 5 minutes for a statement on the 
report.
    Mr. Donalds. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes, sir?
    The Chair recognizes Mr. Donalds.
    Mr. Donalds. Mr. Chairman, for the purposes of this 
hearing, I move that debate be structured to 1 hour on the ANS, 
30 minutes each side, and 10 minutes on every debate that might 
be entered during this hearing of the Oversight Committee.
    Mr. Burchett. Second.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Mr. Lynch. Objection.
    Mr. Raskin. I object to that.
    Chairman Comer. All right. There is an objection, so we 
will vote.
    Mr. Lynch. Mr. Chair, may we be heard on the motion?
    Chairman Comer. Yes. There is a motion. All right. We will 
suspend.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, my objection consists of this. He 
cannot move to override the rules of the House of 
Representatives, and we know exactly how debate is to occur, 
which is the way we usually proceed in debate. So, I do not 
think we have the power to do that.
    Mr. Donalds. Mr. Chairman, if I may, this Committee has 
already done that earlier in this very Congress. We went into 
structured debate on a couple of items a few months ago.
    Mr. Raskin. Yes, by unanimous consent only, so I have 
objected to it. I mean, if the gentleman wants to take it to a 
vote, we can take it to a vote.
    Mr. Lynch. Would the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Raskin. By all means. Why do we want to limit debate on 
this anyway?
    Mr. Lynch. Yes. If I may, I rise in support----
    Chairman Comer. OK. We are going to suspend and call the 
parliamentarian to get the official ruling, correct?
    Mr. Raskin. OK.
    Chairman Comer. So, it may take, I am estimating, 5 
minutes.
    Mr. Raskin. Fine, Mr. Chairman. In the meantime, I have a 
parliamentary inquiry of my own. Can you----
    Chairman Comer. Well, I think we are suspended.
    Mr. Raskin. Oh. I just thought in order to save time, if 
you had other parliamentary inquiries you could take them. No?
    Chairman Comer. No. Let us get the ruling from the 
parliamentarian, then we will proceed.
    [Pause.]
    Chairman Comer. The Committee will come back to order.
    The motion is out of order.
    I will now recognize myself for a 5-minute opening 
statement.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, can I just pursue my 
parliamentary inquiry?
    Chairman Comer. Proceed.
    Mr. Raskin. Will you just explain why this markup was 
delayed to 8 p.m., throwing everybody's schedule into chaos 
today and the building is closed to the public? Why was that 
done?
    Chairman Comer. OK. That is not an appropriate inquiry.
    Mr. Raskin. The time of the meeting is not an appropriate 
procedural inquiry?
    Chairman Comer. Your inquiry is not an appropriate 
parliamentary inquiry, so let us get back to order.
    I recognize myself for an opening statement.
    [Poster]
    Today's markup initiates contempt of Congress proceedings 
against U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland for defying a subpoena 
from the Oversight Committee. The Committee's February subpoena 
required the Department of Justice to produce audio recordings 
of President Biden's interview with the special counsel 
investigating his mishandling and improper disclosure of 
classified materials. The Department has chosen not to produce 
them. That is why we are here today.
    This is not a complicated subject. The Oversight Committee 
requires these audio recordings, and the Department of Justice 
has refused to provide them. We are not in court. The 
accommodations process has been exhausted. We are not making a 
request. The subpoena requires production. We are not requiring 
anything that interferes with an ongoing investigation. The 
special counsel already concluded his investigation by choosing 
not to charge President Biden because he is an ``elderly man 
with a poor memory.''
    This morning, the Department of Justice informed the 
Committee that the President has asserted executive privilege 
over the audio recordings of the President's interview with 
Special Counsel Hur. President Biden's decision to withhold the 
audio recording from Congress is alarming. The Committee has 
already obtained the transcript of the interview. President 
Biden must have something to hide because it does not make 
sense that he would suppress the audio if the transcript was 
accurate. There is no substitute, as the many lawyers on this 
Committee will tell you, for a recording of an actual 
conversation, not a summary, not a report, not a transcript.
    The White House has shown it is willing to alter 
transcripts to protect Joe Biden's image. We will not simply 
take the Justice Department's word about this interview. It is 
not the Department of Justice's decision how to cooperate with 
a subpoena. Just like the people who receive subpoenas from DOJ 
do not get to negotiate their compliance. The Department of 
Justice is not above Congress. It is not above the law. It is 
also not President Biden's decision to assert executive 
privilege on audio recordings when the transcript has already 
been released. In 1974, the House rejected an attempt by 
President Nixon to release a transcript instead of subpoenaed 
audio recordings, and there should be bipartisan support to 
reject it here, too.
    Not long ago, a very distinguished Member of this Committee 
said, ``The lesson is, please tell your children out there in 
America, if you get a subpoena to go before Congress, if you 
get a subpoena to go to court, go. You have a legal 
responsibility to go.'' That distinguished Member was none 
other than Ranking Member, Jamie Raskin, in 2022, only 2 years 
ago. Now, Ranking Member Raskin has spent this Congress making 
excuses for why people like Hunter Biden or now the Department 
of Justice do not have to comply with congressional subpoenas.
    On January 10, 2023, this Committee announced an 
investigation into President Biden's mishandling of classified 
documents. Two days later, on January 12, 2023, the Attorney 
General announced his intent to appoint a special counsel to 
oversee the criminal investigation of President Biden. While 
the special counsel pursued his investigation, the Committee 
did its own work and found facts that have challenged the White 
House's official narrative about these classified materials. 
Months of thorough investigating by this Committee have 
revealed attempts by the White House to keep the truth from the 
American people, not just about the documents themselves and 
why Joe Biden had them, but President Biden's memory and mental 
capacity to do his job.
    The Committee's timeline begins well before the White 
House's narrative that President Biden's private lawyers just 
stumbled upon classified materials in November 2022 at the Penn 
Biden Center. May 24, 2022, 6 months before the White House's 
story began, the White House counsel, Dana Remus, contacted a 
Biden former employee to retrieve President Biden's materials 
from the Penn Biden Center and then traveled there herself to 
pick up boxes. Why would the most senior lawyer at the White 
House be going to pack up an office that was supposed to have 
just pictures and personal documents in it? Why were President 
Biden's personal lawyers visiting the Penn Biden Center days 
before the discovery of classified materials if they thought 
they were just picking up pictures and letters? Why were they 
calling FedEx to pick up boxes and a White House employee was 
leaving with boxes before the November 2 discovery?
    Now the White House will not permit this Committee to 
depose Dana Remus. The White House will not allow any of the 
employees that entered the Penn Biden Center before November 
2022 to speak with the Committee. What is the White House 
afraid of? Why not be transparent and open with this Committee 
and the American people? For that matter, what are Democrats on 
this Committee who oppose the release of these audio recordings 
afraid of? The recordings will just be President Biden 
speaking. What is it that would make them nervous about that?
    It is because they know, once again, President Biden has 
not been honest. He has not been honest about his family's 
foreign entanglements. He has not been honest about mishandling 
classified documents, and if the Democrats were honest, they 
would admit President Biden's mental capacity is declining. 
Americans see it happening every day. In fact, 6 in 10 
Americans do not have confidence in Joe Biden's mental 
capacity.
    If the Attorney General wants to defy Congress and not 
produce the audio recordings, he will face consequences for 
those actions. The path before us is clear. I urge this 
Committee to move forward with holding Attorney General Merrick 
Garland in contempt. I now recognize the Ranking Member.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, 
in this special nighttime episode, we resume the madcap comedy 
mystery series called ``Comer's High Crimes and Misadventures: 
The Hilarious Quest to Impeach a President Who Has Done Nothing 
Wrong,'' in a validly low budget, but multimillion-dollar 
taxpayer-funded production, which most Americans assumed had 
ended 2 months ago and had completely forgotten about. But 
tonight, with the cast and crew now fresh back from a surprise 
visit to New York City----
    Ms. Greene. You mean like the January 6 Committee?
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Ms. Crockett. Uh-uh. Stop it.
    Mr. Raskin. I would like my time restored to me, Mr. 
Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. Order. Order. The Chair recognizes the 
Ranking Member.
    Mr. Raskin. OK.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Chairman Comer. Order. Order. Order.
    Mr. Raskin. Well, tonight with the cast and crew fresh back 
from their surprise trip to New York City, it is clear the show 
must go on.
    [Photo]
    Now, our originally scheduled performance was supposed to 
be at 11 a.m. today, but it was postponed when Members of the 
Majority chose to join a mass spiritual pilgrimage to the New 
York criminal trial of a Florida man, an adjudicated fraudster 
and rapist, as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying 
corporate financial records to cover up $130,000 paid in hush 
money to a porn star sex partner. Now, although some people are 
churlishly complaining that Members should actually be here to 
vote on public business and should not have forced a last-
minute change in the Committee's schedule, our colleagues 
properly demonstrated for all of history their fierce devotion 
to this clearly reformed, devout, and pious Florida spiritual 
leader who many supporters are now calling the Messiah from 
Mar-a-Lago.
    Of course, in the meantime, Chairman Jordan and the House 
Judiciary Committee preempted----
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Raskin. No, I am in the middle of my introduction----
    Mrs. Luna. Sir, I appreciate that, but it is a good photo.
    Ms. Boebert. I would like a copy of that.
    Mrs. Luna. Would you like a signed one, Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. Yes.
    Ms. Boebert. I want----
    Mr. Goldman. Will you get your Members in order, Mr. 
Chairman?
    Mrs. Luna. It is a great photo. I want a copy.
    Chairman Comer. Order. Order. Order.
    Mr. Raskin. In the meantime, Chairman Jordan in the House 
Judiciary Committee preempted our GOP colleagues on Oversight, 
rendering this entire exercise not only absurd but completely 
meaningless and redundant. They have already held Attorney 
General Garland purportedly in contempt.
    Now, when we last met on this matter, you will recall that 
the Majority still had not identified a single high crime or 
misdemeanor that the President had committed. The Committee's 
impressive 3.8 million pages of documents and 80 hours of 
testimony from 20 witnesses produced nothing but overwhelming 
and definitive proof that President Biden had done nothing 
wrong. So, desperate for a new storyline, Republicans have come 
up with this astonishing new plot twist. They now propose to 
hold the Attorney General of the United States in contempt for 
giving the Committee the information it asked for, and it is 
information that has absolutely nothing to do with their failed 
impeachment investigation or any high crimes or misdemeanors.
    Now, true fans of the show will recall from prior episodes 
this plot device of punishing people for complying with 
Committee orders, but this new episode of not taking ``yes'' 
for an answer sends us off into strange new worlds of absurdity 
where no congressional committee has truly ever gone before. 
The Majority wanted to know what President Biden said in his 
voluntary interview with Special Counsel Hur, and maybe there 
was an impeachable diamond lurking in the rough, so the Justice 
Department complied with the request. It turned over the 250-
page transcript of President Biden's 5-hour interview with the 
special counsel. We had a hearing on it in this Committee. The 
special counsel came, and there was nothing impeachable there. 
If there had been, you would have taken up Mr. Moskowitz's 
offer, and you would have voted on impeachment after it 
happened, but you did not.
    Committee Members and millions of Americans got to read the 
entire transcript and can read it right now if they like. We 
all can learn what the President was asked and see how he 
answered each and every question, but the Chairman insists that 
is not enough. He and the rest of America are clearly able to 
read the interview, but he wants to be able to hear the 
interview. The book is not sufficient. He wants the audiobook, 
and because of this gratuitous and comical request, the whole 
troop now seeks to hold the Attorney General of the United 
States of America in contempt. Anyone watching can grasp the 
fallacy cleverly tucked into this new special primetime 
episode. There is nothing relevant or material that our 
Committee can learn from an audiotape which we cannot learn 
from the 250 pages of the transcript. The format of the medium 
does not change the content of the communications.
    So, in this absurd twist, our friends now seek to blame the 
spectacular belly flop of their own impeachment probe on 
Attorney General Garland and his sneaky effort to obstruct the 
investigation by cooperating with it. We know what real 
obstruction looks like because the last President specialized 
in it. This President agreed to sit down for a voluntary 5-hour 
interview with the special counsel investigating him. Attorney 
General Garland turned over the complete 250-page transcript 
interview. That is not obstruction. Real obstruction was Trump 
and his Administration refusing to provide information Congress 
requested in more than 100 different congressional 
investigations and inquiries. And I know that pleases the 
gentlelady from Georgia because he issued----
    Ms. Greene. I just want to hear Joe Biden. Why cannot the 
American people hear him?
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Mr. Goldman. Order, Mr. Chairman. Get her under control.
    Mr. Raskin. President Trump.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Mr. Raskin. President Trump issued an edict. No, I am glad 
that the gentlelady from Georgia is learning something tonight, 
OK? The President----
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Mr. Raskin. I encourage her to be a good listener, and she 
has been a good listener.
    [Laughter.]
    Mr. Raskin. So, Mr. Chairman, the last President issued an 
edict directing all Federal officials in his Administration to 
categorically ignore and reject all congressional subpoenas. Do 
my colleagues remember that? Do they know that? He told them 
not to cooperate with any Federal investigation at all by 
Congress, and we did not hear peep from any of them. That was 
real obstruction. Real obstruction happened when two Members of 
this Committee, who may be preparing to vote tonight to hold 
Attorney General Garland in contempt, brazenly refuse to comply 
with subpoenas from the U.S. House Select Committee to 
investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol 
and still have not responded to those subpoenas.
    But now it seems, Mr. Chairman--I just got passed 
something--that the whole obstruction gimmick may just be a 
fundraising ploy which demeans the overwhelming legal integrity 
and impressive theatrical ambitions of this enterprise. I was 
just handed a mass fundraising email solicitation for your 
campaign that you sent out this evening, Mr. Chairman, stating 
that, ``Biden and his advisors are terrified that I will 
release the recordings, forcing the media and Democrats to 
answer for the dismal decline of Biden's mental state. This 
could be the final blow to Biden with swing voters across the 
country. The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to stop 
the bleeding. Signed James Comer, Chairman, House Oversight 
Committee.'' Now, I must confess my disappointment to be handed 
this fundraising solicitation signed by you as Chairman of the 
House Oversight Committee. I thought that you were serious 
about the legal enterprise here and not just another political 
huckster calling hearings to score cheap political points and 
to make a buck.
    Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask unanimous consent to 
enter into the record the full and complete 250-page transcript 
of the President's interview with Special Counsel Hur, which we 
have now had in our Committee for more than 2 months.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, so ordered.
    Mr. Raskin. And I know that some people may think this is a 
big Broadway production now with everybody's trip to the Big 
Apple, but it is high time to close this unhinged series and 
get back to some semblance of the people's work.
    We have the interview transcript. We have the President's 
words. There is no basis for this outlandish contempt 
proceeding which only further disgraces our Committee along 
with Judiciary. Accordingly, Mr. Chairman, and since your 
Members seem to be in such a hurry to be done with this, I move 
to immediately adjourn these proceedings.
    Ms. Lee. Seconded.
    Ms. Crockett. I second.
    Chairman Comer. So, in your opening statement, you move to 
adjourn.
    Mr. Raskin. I am moving to adjourn these proceedings.
    Ms. Lee. Second.
    Chairman Comer. Motion and second.
    All those in favor of adjournment, signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    All those opposed, no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    Chairman Comer. The noes have it. The motion fails.
    Now, do any other Members wish to be heard?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Recorded vote.
    Chairman Comer. A recorded vote has been requested. The 
clerk will call the roll.
    A procedural vote, we have to vote the old-fashioned way.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes no.
    Ms. Foxx?
    Ms. Foxx. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes no.
    Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes no.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes no.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes no.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes no.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes no.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes no.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes no.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes no.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes no.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes no.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes no.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes no.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes no.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes no.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes no.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes no.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. No.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes no.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes no.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes no.
    Mr. Waltz?
    Mr. Waltz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes no.
    Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes aye.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes yes.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes aye.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes aye.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes aye.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes aye.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes aye.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes aye.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. Yes
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes yes.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. Yes
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes yes.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes aye.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes yes.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes yes.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes yes.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes aye.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes aye.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes aye.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes yes.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes aye.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. I vote yes, and how did Mr. Jordan vote?
    I mean, I vote no. I am sorry. I vote no.
    The Clerk. The Chairman votes no.
    Chairman Comer. Yes. How is Mr. Jordan recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan is not recorded.
    Mr. Jordan. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan votes no.
    Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the nays are 24. The ayes are 
19.
    Chairman Comer. The noes have it. The motion to adjourn 
fails. Does any other Member----
    Mr. Moskowitz. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last 
word.
    Chairman Comer. Does any other Member seek recognition?
    Mr. Moskowitz. Mr. Chairman, move to strike the last word.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mr. Moskowitz.
    Mr. Moskowitz. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All 
right. So, welcome to ``Oversight After Dark.'' If you love 
James Comer at 11 in the morning, you are really going to love 
him at 8:30 p.m. So, Members, the hearing was moved today. We 
do not have to ask the question. The hearing was moved today so 
that Members could go to New York and attend the Trump hearing. 
How is he doing? He has complained that he is chilly in the 
courtroom. Is it chilly? Is it chilly?
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No. I will assume it is chilly.
    Mrs. Luna. He is doing very good.
    Mr. Moskowitz. OK. Good. So, it was mentioned by the 
Ranking Member about really what we are doing here. You do not 
have to listen to my words. I would like to do a spirited 
reading of the campaign email sent out by the Chairman, and it 
is on lovely stationery. In fact, it says, ``From the Desk of 
the Oversight Chairman.'' I am not sure you can do that, but I 
am not an ethics expert.
    It says, ``Friend: President Biden is exerting executive 
privilege in a last-ditch attempt to stop the disastrous audio 
recording of his interview with special counsel from being 
released.'' And it is highlighted in yellow. Want to make sure 
people saw that. ``Just a few months ago, the White House 
bragged that Joe Biden had nothing to hide and would not exert 
executive privilege during Special Counsel Hur's investigation. 
They even said he had nothing to hide,'' and that is in 
italics. ``Now Biden and his advisors are terrified that I, 
James Comer, will release the recordings, forcing the media and 
the Democrats to answer for the dismal decline of Biden's 
mental state. He even had Attorney Merrick Garland write a 
letter saying that his interview falls within the scope of 
executive privilege. This could be the final blow with swing 
voters across the country.''
    OK. Hold on. We are not done. It gets better. ``You and I 
know he is not up for the job, but the mainstream media's 
refusal to report on it as only keeping him in the game. Stand 
with Comer, the Democrats''----
    [Applause.]
    [Cheers.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. You sure about that? ``The Democrats are 
pulling out all the stops to stop the bleeding. That means 
coming after me with everything they had. If you are able, we 
hope you are, I would be so grateful if you would consider 
making a donation to my campaign. I sure need it to defend 
against the onslaught of attacks. Thank you for everything. 
James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee.''
    Without objection, I would like to enter that into the 
record.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, so ordered.
    Mr. Moskowitz. All right. Beautiful.
    So, again, Mr. Chairman, since you think this is the final 
blow, right, and obviously the Chairman of Judiciary is here, 
too, we only have June, July, and September before the 
election. We are not here in August and October. So, I mean, I 
am sure the American people are paying attention at 11:30 p.m. 
where you buried this hearing because it is so important. When 
are we going to do the impeachment of Joe Biden? When is that 
going to happen? Is it going to be June? Is it going to be 
July? Is it going to be September? Let us just put it on the 
calendar. Let us just put it on the calendar. Pick a month. We 
are available. We were available at 11 a.m. You guys were not. 
Just pick a month, right, so we can get it on the calendar and 
do the impeachment. So, hold on, I will give you choices. 
Ready? June.
    Mr. Perry. We just need the evidence.
    Mr. Moskowitz. July.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. How about September?
    [No response.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. OK. So, we are never going to schedule this 
thing. It is never going to happen. He is sending out more 
subpoenas because he has no evidence, OK, and yet here we go 
around and around and around, and so we get it. You will raise 
money off of it. Congratulations to you. If you want, Mr. 
Chairman, I can get the transcript out. I can do a spirited 
reading. We can sit here. I will do all 250 pages for you. I 
will even, like, put on a Biden mask, make it visual so you can 
really get in the moment. I mean we just want to know, what is 
it going to take, Mr. Chairman, to get you comfortable.
    You go on Newsmax, and you get comfortable. What is it 
going to take to get you comfortable to ask your friend, 
Chairman Jordan sitting next to you, when we are going to 
schedule impeachment. So, we will do it again. Ready, 
everybody? How about June?
    [No response.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. July.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. September.
    Ms. Boebert. Does the gentleman know how many spare Biden 
masks there are available in D.C.?
    Mr. Moskowitz. I do not, but there is a lot on Etsy.
    [Laughter.]
    Mr. Moskowitz. I mean, you can get lots of things. OK. So, 
look, I will yield the balance of my time to the Ranking Member 
if he wants to use the last 45. Oh, you have something to say, 
Mr. Chairman. Go ahead, please.
    Chairman Comer. No, I was going to say you yielded to 
Ranking Member Raskin----
    Mr. Moskowitz. Yes. I am done. I know.
    Chairman Comer. He has 30 seconds.
    Mr. Moskowitz. Go ahead, Mr. Ranking Member.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you, Mr. Moskowitz. There is an ethics 
principle that no solicitation of a campaign or political 
contribution may be linked to an action taken or to be taken by 
a Member or employee in his or her official capacity. That is 
just a reminder to my side. I hope that nobody is linking 
specific actions that you are taking on the Oversight Committee 
to campaign contributions or solicitations. And with that I 
will yield back to the distinguished gentleman from Florida.
    Chairman Comer. The time has expired. Does any other Member 
seek recognition?
    Ms. Greene. Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Ms. Greene.
    Ms. Greene. I would like to know if any of the Democrats on 
this Committee are employing Judge Merchan's daughter.
    Ms. Crockett. Please tell me what that has to do with 
Merrick Garland.
    Mrs. Luna. Goldman.
    Mr. Raskin. Is she a porn star?
    Ms. Greene. Oh, Goldman. That is right. He is advising. OK.
    Ms. Crockett. He is advising who? Do you know what we are 
here for? You know we are here about the AG.
    Ms. Greene. I do not think you know what you are here for.
    Ms. Crockett. Well, you the one talking about--Ms. Greene. 
I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you are 
reading.
    Ms. Crockett. No, it is nothing----
    Chairman Comer. Hold on. Hold on.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Chairman Comer. Order.
    Mr. Goldman. Mr. Chairman, would you please----
    Mr. Raskin. That is beneath even you, Ms. Greene.
    Chairman Comer. Order. Order.
    Mr. Raskin. That is beneath even you.
    Mr. Goldman. Mr. Chairman, would you please regain order of 
your Committee?
    Chairman Comer. Order.
    Mr. Lynch. We have a point of order.
    Chairman Comer. We have a point of order. Mr. Lynch, state 
your point.
    Mr. Lynch. Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask the 
parliamentarian if your conduct here in raising money in 
connection with this hearing is referable to the Ethics 
Committee within this hearing. Is a motion in order to refer 
your conduct and your abuse of----
    Chairman Comer. That is not a point of order.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I do have a point of order, and I would 
like to move to take down Ms. Greene's words. That is 
absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical 
appearance of another person.
    Chairman Comer. The meeting will suspend. The meeting will 
suspend.
    Ms. Greene. Are your feelings hurt?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Move her words down.
    Ms. Greene. Aw.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Oh, girl. Baby girl.
    [Laughter.]
    Ms. Greene. Oh really?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Do not even play with me.
    Ms. Greene. ``Baby girl?'' I do not think so.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. We are going to move, and we are going 
to take your words down. Thank you very much.
    Mr. Mfume. I second that motion.
    Chairman Comer. OK. We are suspending.
    Mr. Donalds. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes?
    Mr. Donalds. So, you remember what I was saying earlier 
about----
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Chairman Comer. The Committee will reconvene. Ms. Greene 
has 4 minutes and 21 seconds. There is a motion. Ms. Greene, do 
you wish to strike your words?
    Ms. Greene. I have 4 minutes and 21 seconds to speak?
    Chairman Comer. I think we have to do the motion first, and 
then, unless there is another motion, then you will be 
recognized again, but I believe there is another motion coming. 
So, do you agree to strike your words?
    Ms. Greene. Yes, I will agree.
    Chairman Comer. OK. Ms. Greene agrees to strike her words.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I believe she needs to apologize.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mr. Perry.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No, no, no, she needs to apologize.
    Chairman Comer. Hold on. Mr. Perry is going to be 
recognized, then Ms. Greene has 4 minutes and 21 seconds.
    Ms. Greene. I am not apologizing.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Well, then, you are not striking your 
words.
    Mr. Raskin. OK. Reserve the right to object.
    Ms. Greene. I am not apologizing.
    Chairman Comer. Come on, guys.
    Ms. Greene. Why don't you debate me?
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, the Minority----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I think it is pretty self-evident.
    Chairman Comer. You are out of order.
    Ms. Greene. Yes. You do not have enough intelligence.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mr. Perry.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Mr. Raskin. OK. Move to strike the lady's words.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I would like to strike those words as 
well.
    Mr. Mfume. I move to strike those words.
    Mrs. Luna. Order.
    Mr. Raskin. Move to strike the gentlelady's words again.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. That is two requests to strike. That is 
two requests to strike.
    Ms. Greene. Oh, they cannot take the words.
    Mr. Raskin. There is another motion to strike her words 
again. Please get your Members under control.
    Chairman Comer. All right. Here is the correct priority. 
Ms. Greene, do you agree to unanimous consent to strike your 
words?
    Ms. Greene. I repeat again for the second time, yes, I will 
strike my words----
    Chairman Comer. All right.
    Ms. Greene [continuing]. But I am not apologizing.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection.
    Ms. Greene. Not apologizing.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, the Chair recognizes----
    Mr. Raskin. I reserve the right to object.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mr. Perry.
    Mr. Raskin. I reserve the right to object.
    Mr. Perry. Mr. Chairman, I move that Mr. Goldman's words 
and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's words be stricken.
    Chairman Comer. OK.
    Mr. Raskin. Which words, and you have to do it 
contemporaneously. Object. The objection must be 
contemporaneous, and they have not spoken in 10 minutes.
    Mr. Perry. Nobody has spoken in 10 minutes.
    Mr. Raskin. That is right, therefore, defeating your 
proposal.
    Mr. Perry. You all have, so that is my motion, Mr. 
Chairman.
    Mr. Raskin. Well, I object. It does not refer to anything 
that is on the Floor. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez objected immediately 
and instantaneously as you are supposed to do under the rules 
and precedent----
    Mr. Timmons. We were in a recess after that.
    Mr. Raskin [continuing]. Of the House of Representatives.
    Voice. So, the first time he could move to strike----
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman, point of parliamentary inquiry.
    Chairman Comer. All right. We are going to suspend for a 
minute, but we will talk to the parliamentarian.
    [Pause.]
    Chairman Comer. OK. The Committee will come back to order.
    So, Ms. Greene asked unanimous consent to strike her words. 
Mr. Raskin objected. I am going to recognize Mr. Raskin for his 
objection. We are not counting against--Ms. Greene has 4 
minutes and 21 seconds left. This will not count against her 
time.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I reserve the right to 
object because the understanding of the Minority is that the 
gentlelady from Georgia would move to take her words down and 
strike her words, and to offer a sincere apology for having 
engaged in personalities against another Member offending her 
personal appearance and insulting her. We do not do that in 
this Committee, and I think the major problem was that we 
allowed pornography in this Committee, and we have gone down a 
bad road. But in any event, we should not allow face-to-face, 
ad hominem insults. It is totally contrary to the rules of the 
House of Representatives, and I would ask Ms. Greene if she 
would just make the apology. It is not that complicated. We do 
not want to get into face-to-face insults.
    Ms. Greene. You will never get an apology out of me. I do 
not owe you one.
    Mr. Raskin. Then I object. Then I object, Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. Mr. Raskin objects. The Member will state 
the words he wishes taken down or she wishes down.
    Mr. Raskin. Well, what I heard her to say, but I would like 
her to repeat the words. What I heard her to say was, and you 
can take off your fake eyelashes, too.
    Well then, what did you say? What did you say, Ms. Greene.
    Chairman Comer. I mean, really? I mean----
    Mr. Raskin. The clerk needs to report the words, but 
those----
    Chairman Comer. OK. The clerk----
    Mr. Raskin. That was the sum and substance.
    Chairman Comer. The clerk will report the words. The clerk 
will report the words.
    Mr. Palmer. Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman?
    Mr. Raskin. We could subpoena the audiotape, Mr. Chair.
    [Laughter.]
    The Clerk. It will just take us a few minutes to get the 
words.
    Chairman Comer. OK. We will suspend.
    [Pause.]
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman, just 
a point of order here. I believe there are Members who have 
been interviewed by the media from their seats. Do we allow 
that?
    Mrs. Luna. They identify as clerks.
    Mr. Raskin. As clerks?
    Mrs. Luna. You are not respecting their identity?
    Chairman Comer. For decorum, the media will evacuate the 
well, at the request of the--complaint of the Ranking Member.
    Ms. Mace. Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman, Netflix followed 
Hunter Biden into this room, and I do not remember anyone 
across the aisle complaining about Hunter Biden and his TV crew 
when he came up here.
    Chairman Comer. That is a fair point. So, do you withdraw 
that?
    Mr. Raskin. Yes.
    Chairman Comer. OK, Mr. Raskin withdrew this one. Are we 
ready to proceed and let Ms. Greene finish with her 4 minutes 
and 21 seconds?
    Mr. Raskin. Well, what is the ruling on the motion to take 
her words down? I thought we had an agreement. Mr. Chairman, I 
would just urge you to prevail upon the gentlelady from 
Georgia--her words----
    Chairman Comer. Well, it is very difficult for the 
stenographer to understand everything with everyone yelling and 
screaming back and forth. We went through this with the--I 
would like to make a point--we went through this with some of 
the things that Mr. Swalwell said in the Hunter Biden 
deposition. Some of the things that he said negative about our 
staff and the Members were not picked up by the stenographer, 
unfortunately, because there was so much yelling.
    Mr. Raskin. Fair enough, Mr. Chairman. But I think we do 
not want to see a complete descent of our Committee. The 
verbatim quote of the gentlelady was ``I think your fake 
eyelashes are messing up your reading.'' That is what she said. 
And that is obviously engaging in personalities. It is an ad 
hominem attack, and I would just ask every Member of this 
Committee, in a fair-minded way, would you want to be talked to 
in that way, about your personal appearance, by another Member 
of the Committee. Because what we are doing is setting 
standards going forward. All the gentlelady seeks is a simple 
apology, Ms. Greene.
    Chairman Comer. I will say this, for Committee decorum, we 
are not supposed to engage in personalities of Members. That 
applies to everyone on both sides of the aisle--Mr. Moskowitz, 
Ms. Greene--every single Member across the aisle. Can we 
proceed?
    Mr. Raskin. Well, the motion belongs to the gentlelady from 
New York, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
    Ms. Crockett. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. OK. Back to order. The clerk will report, 
stenographer?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, there was a lot of over-talking, 
but as far as we can make out, it is, ``And you can remove your 
false eyelashes, too.''
    Chairman Comer. OK.
    Mr. Raskin. Well, let us have a vote on that because I 
honestly do not think there is a Member on this Committee who 
would think we should descend to that level of discourse here 
other than one perhaps. I am sorry. You agree it should be 
taken down, Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Mr. Raskin, the gentlelady from Georgia 
already said that she would strike down her words. What else 
are we doing past that point?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    Mr. Donalds. I did not realize that apologies were a matter 
of----
    Mr. Raskin. No. The suggestion was made to the Minority 
that rather than go through the process of formally taking her 
words down, which means she would not be able to speak for the 
rest of our hearing, as you know--as you know--that she could 
continue to speak but she would voluntarily take her words 
down----
    Chairman Comer. All right.
    Mr. Raskin [continuing]. And offer a sincere apology.
    Chairman Comer. I am going to rule. I overrule the point of 
order. It was not personalities. It was indecorous, and I would 
encourage, again, every Member to abide by Committee decorum, 
and let us vote. We all know what we are here for. You are 
either going to vote for it or against it----
    Ms. Crockett. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. And the lady from Georgia has 4 minutes and 
21 seconds----
    Ms. Crockett. Mr. Chairman, point of order.
    Mr. Raskin. I appeal the ruling of the Chair, Mr. Chairman, 
because the rules provide that you cannot insult another 
Member's personal appearance or attire, and that is obviously 
part of engaging in personalities.
    Mrs. Luna. Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Hold on. Hold on. We have so many motions, 
we are sitting here trying to--all right. There is now a motion 
to table Mr. Raskin's motion.
    Mr. Raskin. No, I was appealing your motion.
    Mr. Gosar. I second the motion.
    Chairman Comer. The motion by Mr. Perry, seconded by Mr. 
Gosar.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I do not believe you can table----
    Chairman Comer. All those in favor?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I do not believe you can. It is not 
eligible to table. It is not eligible to table.
    Mr. Mfume. It is not eligible to table.
    Chairman Comer. We can table the appeal. We can table the 
appeal.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I do not know if we can table----
    Mr. Raskin. The underlying motion----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Is it his privilege to strike?
    Chairman Comer. We can table the appeal. There is a motion 
and second to table the appeal.
    Mr. Raskin. Just to be clear, your ruling was that she had 
not engaged in personalities. Is that your ruling?
    Ms. Greene. Mr. Chairman, when do I have my 4 minutes and 
21 seconds?
    Chairman Comer. I have already ruled. I have already ruled. 
I have already ruled.
    Ms. Crockett. Mr. Chairman, point of order.
    Chairman Comer. No. There is a motion to vote on it. Is not 
debatable, motion by Mr. Perry, second by Mr. Gosar, to table.
    All those in favor of tabling, signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    Chairman Comer. All those opposed no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    The motion passes to table.
    Mr. Raskin. Move for the yeas and the nays.
    Chairman Comer. Now, the Chair recognizes Ms. Greene.
    Mr. Raskin. I want to move for the yeas----
    Mr. Connolly. A recorded vote.
    Chairman Comer. A recorded vote to table has been 
requested.
    The clerk will call the roll on tabling.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    [No response.]
    Mrs. Luna. I have an amendment at the desk.
    Chairman Comer. We are voting on a requested roll call vote 
on whether or not to table. She started the roll call with Mr. 
Jordan.
    The Clerk. Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    Ms. Foxx. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes yes.
    Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes yes.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes aye.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes aye.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes aye.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes aye.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes aye.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes aye.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes aye.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes aye.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes aye.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. Present.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes present.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes aye.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes aye.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes aye.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes aye.
    Mr. Waltz?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes no.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes no.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes no.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes no.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 21, the nays are 
19, with one voting present.
    Chairman Comer. All right. Motion tabled. Now the Chair 
recognizes Ms. Greene for 4 minutes and 21 seconds.
    Ms. Crockett. Mr. Chair, point of order.
    Chairman Comer. Who is?
    Ms. Crockett. It is me.
    Chairman Comer. Ms. Crockett.
    Ms. Crockett. I am just curious just to better understand 
your ruling. If someone on this Committee then starts talking 
about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built butch body, that 
would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
    Chairman Comer. A what now?
    [Laughter.]
    Mrs. Luna. Chairman, I make a motion to strike those words.
    Chairman Comer. I do not think that is a parliamentary----
    Ms. Crockett. I am trying to find clarification on what 
qualifies----
    Chairman Comer. I did not----
    Mrs. Luna. Chairman, motion to strike those words.
    Chairman Comer. I have no idea what you just said.
    Mrs. Luna. We are not going to do this. Look, you guys 
earlier, literally just----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. You just voted to do it.
    Ms. Frost. You all did it first.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. You just voted to do it.
    Chairman Comer. Order. Order.
    Ms. Crockett. I am trying to get clarification.
    Mrs. Luna. Look, calm down. Calm down.
    Ms. Crockett. No. No, no, no, because this is what you all 
do.
    Mrs. Luna. I would like to get through the proceeding.
    Ms. Crockett. So, I am trying to get clarification----
    Chairman Comer. Ms. Crockett, you are not recognized.
    Ms. Crockett [continuing]. Since you all want to play 
games.
    Chairman Comer. Ms. Crockett.
    Mrs. Luna. I cannot hear you with your yelling.
    Ms. Crockett. If you do not want me to be----
    Mrs. Luna. Calm down.
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    Mrs. Luna. Can you please calm down?
    Ms. Crockett. Do not tell me to calm down.
    Mrs. Luna. Calm down. Please calm down.
    Ms. Crockett. Because you all talk noise, and then you 
cannot take it. Because if I----
    Mrs. Luna. You are out of control. Chairman, can we send 
her outside to take a break for 5 minutes?
    Ms. Crockett [continuing]. Come and talk shit about her, 
you all going to have a problem.
    [Disturbance in hearing room.]
    Mr. Mfume. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. Order. All right. OK. Order.
    Mrs. Luna. I do not know why you are acting like that. It 
is not cute.
    Chairman Comer. Order. The Chair recognizes Ms. Greene for 
4 minutes and 21 seconds. Four minutes. Let Ms. Greene talk, 
and then you all can----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I move to strike----
    Chairman Comer. I will recognize----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. I move to strike her words for a second 
time based on her second set of personal remarks, attacking 
another Member.
    Mrs. Luna. Chairman Comer?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Because you all cannot seem----
    Mrs. Luna. I have an amendment at the desk.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez [continuing]. To apply the rules of the 
Committee----
    Mrs. Luna. This sideshow can stop.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez [continuing]. We have to do this every 
time.
    Ms. Greene. OK. I am recognized. I am recognized.
    Chairman Comer. Order, order.
    Ms. Greene. I am recognized. I am going to go ahead and 
start talking.
    Chairman Comer. Look, I know. I know. Look, I do not know 
if you have noticed it. I have two hearing aids. I am very 
deaf. I am not understanding. Everybody is yelling. I am doing 
the best I can. Can we not recognize Ms. Greene and let her 
get----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. We cannot because of the rules of the 
Committee, Mr. Chair. That is what I am trying to communicate 
in the present moment.
    Chairman Comer. OK. What is the motion? What is the motion?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. The motion is to strike the gentlelady's 
words for the second set of remarks. Not the first, the second 
that apply to me.
    Mrs. Luna. She has no idea. She has no idea.
    Chairman Comer. Do we know what the words?
    Ms. Greene. She has no idea. She has no idea. I think, Mr. 
Chairman, I am the only one recognized right now.
    Mr. Raskin. Well, we objected at the time.
    Chairman Comer. Will the Member state the words she wishes 
struck?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Yes. She told me or she asserted that I 
was not intelligent. These are the specific words. We can have 
it read by the clerk.
    Mr. Raskin. It was made immediately
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. And it was made immediately. I am not 
moving now. I am not moving now.
    Chairman Comer. I do not think it was timely.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. It was immediately.
    Mr. Raskin. It was made immediately both by the gentlelady 
and by me.
    Chairman Comer. Guys, look----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Mr. Chair, it was made immediately, and 
you said that you would return to us.
    Mr. Raskin. She said you do not have the intelligence to 
talk to me, is what she said.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Ms. Greene for 4 
minutes and 21 seconds.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Mr. Chair, what is happening with the 
rule?
    Mr. Raskin. I object to the ruling.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. We must object.
    Mr. Raskin. If you want to take it up----
    Mr. Lynch. Mr. Chairman, a point of order.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Lynch. Mr. Chairman?
    Mr. Chairman, on a point of order.
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer.
    Back in order. The Committee will come back to order.
    The Chair rules to strike the words that Ms. Greene said 
where she said that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was not----
    Mr. Raskin. That she lacked the intelligence to speak to 
her----
    Chairman Comer. OK. OK.
    Mr. Raskin [continuing]. When, in fact, Ms. Mr. Ocasio-
Cortez is a brilliant Member----
    Chairman Comer. I did not say it because I did not want you 
all to get anything on me.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No, we should be on the record with what 
was----
    Chairman Comer. OK. We strike the words that she said, 
``You are not intelligent.'' Are we good on that?
    Mr. Goldman. No, no----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. We need----
    Chairman Comer. The words have been struck.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No, no, no. Whoa.
    Mr. Goldman. No, it was to take the words down.
    Mr. Goldman. Mr. Chairman----
    Chairman Comer. Mr. Goldman, you, you are out of order. 
Listen----
    Mr. Goldman. Mr. Chairman, her motion was to take her words 
down, not to strike the words.
    Chairman Comer. It was to strike the words. That is what 
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez asked, OK? Now----
    Mr. Raskin. Which is to take them down.
    Mr. Goldman. There is no such thing----
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Which is to take them down.
    Mr. Raskin. Which is to take them down.
    Chairman Comer. Which is to take them down. They have been 
taken down. They have been taken down. All right.
    Mr. Goldman. All right. Then that means that Ms. Greene has 
to leave the Committee. She cannot speak.
    Chairman Comer. No, Mr. Goldman, Mr. Goldman, you are out 
of order. Now, I want everyone--let us comply with decorum.
    [Laughter.]
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Ms. Greene for----
    Mr. Frost. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. No, no, no.
    Mr. Goldman. Her words were taken down.
    Chairman Comer. No. No.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No. Her words were taken down. That 
means she cannot speak.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes----
    Mr. Goldman. If her words are stricken, she cannot speak in 
this hearing. Talk to your parliamentarian. She has to get out.
    Mr. Raskin. Without a motion under unanimous consent, the 
gentlelady is not permitted to speak for the rest of this 
session.
    Mrs. Luna. Chairman?
    Mr. Raskin. And we are happy to revive our motion to 
adjourn, Mr. Chairman.
    I think these 17-hour days might not work for us.
    Mrs. Luna. Something about working, huh?
    Mr. Goldman. Maybe showing up for a vote.
    Mrs. Luna. You have a lot to say being that you are on 
retainer for the judge's daughter. Sorry, trust fund kid.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. We should strike those words, too.
    Ms. Greene. I hope you brought your popcorn.
    Voice. Mr. Chairman?
    Mrs. Luna. I will strike those after we strike the fact 
that they----
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Mrs. Luna [continuing]. Are making comments about 
Marjorie's body.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Mrs. Luna. So, we can do this all night long, but I have a 
motion----
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, this is out of control.
    Mrs. Luna [continuing]. I would like to get.
    Mr. Raskin. We should adjourn, Mr. Chairman.
    Mrs. Luna. Motion at the desk.
    Ms. Greene. I think my body is pretty good. I am going to 
be 50 this month.
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman? Point of order.
    Ms. Greene. I am. I turn 50.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Ms. Greene. Pretty good.
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman?
    Ms. Greene. Thank you.
    Ms. Stansbury. Mr. Chairman?
    Ms. Greene. Thank you. I appreciate that.
    Ms. Stansbury. We have some Members in the room who are 
drinking inside the hearing room who are not Members of this 
hearing.
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman?
    Ms. Stansbury. Mr. Chairman, we have Members who are not on 
this Committee sitting in the hearing room drinking.
    Mr. Biggs. We have Members talking who have not been 
recognized. Mr. Chairman, point of inquiry.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman, point of inquiry.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. We are going to suspend for 5 minutes while 
our staffs work the parliamentary questions out. So, this 
Committee----
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chair?
    Chairman Comer [continuing]. Is suspended 5 minutes. It 
would be a good time for everyone to go out and take a break.
    Ms. Boebert. Can we apologize to the American people back 
home first?
    Chairman Comer. Get some fresh air.
    Ms. Boebert. That would be really great.
    Chairman Comer. Five minutes. The Committee will reconvene 
in 5 minutes.
    Ms. Boebert. How sorry we are that we are not----
    [Recess.]
    Chairman Comer. The Committee will reconvene. Members are 
advised they must observe the House's standard of decorum in 
debate and conduct. They must speak and act respectfully and 
may not use disorderly words or unparliamentary language, such 
as words negative toward your colleagues or engage in 
personalities toward the President or senator. Does that count 
for former president?
    OK. All right. I move that the gentlelady from Georgia be 
permitted to proceed in order.
    Mr. Raskin. And would object and ask for recorded vote.
    Chairman Comer. Mr. Raskin has requested a recorded vote 
for my motion to allow the gentlelady from Georgia to proceed. 
I vote yes.
    The clerk will call the roll.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes aye.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes aye.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes aye.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes aye.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes aye.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes aye.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes aye.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes aye.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes no.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes aye.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes aye.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes aye.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes aye.
    Mr. Waltz?
    Mr. Waltz. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes aye.
    Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes no.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes nay.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes nay.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. Nay.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes nay.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Mr. Grothman recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman is not recorded.
    Mr. Grothman. I will vote yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Mr. LaTurner recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner is not recorded.
    Mr. LaTurner. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Dr. Foxx recorded?
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx is not recorded.
    Ms. Foxx. Foxx votes yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Mr. Sessions recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions is recorded as voting aye.
    Chairman Comer. Do any other Members wish to vote? Has 
Nancy voted?
    Has Ms. Mace voted? Yes. OK. Well, the clerk can tally the 
report.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 22. The 
nays are 20.
    Chairman Comer. The motion passes.
    I will now recognize Ms. Greene for 4 minutes and 21 
seconds.
    Ms. Greene. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are here tonight to 
hold Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, and there has 
been complaint and complaint after complaint from the other 
side of the aisle. Now, I would like to remind everyone that 
the American taxpayers were forced to pay millions and millions 
of dollars for the January 6 Committee last Congress, who was 
convened during primetime evening hours, and they hired an ABC 
News executive, James Goldston, to produce these committee 
hearings. Actually, had the American taxpayers pay for this, 
and Democrats are complaining about our Committee hearing this 
evening? I would also like to remind everyone that during the 
117th Congress, we would vote until 1 or 2 in the morning many, 
many times late at night, and that was when Democrats 
controlled the house.
    But the worst thing about the January 6 Committee is that 
the Speaker broke her own rules when she produced this 
Committee, created the Committee. The Minority leader appointed 
Members of Congress to this Committee, and they were denied 
being able to participate on the January 6 Committee. This 
Committee operated against the rules of Congress. It was 
procedurally defective. And today, right now, Peter Navarro is 
sitting in jail because he was held in contempt of Congress, 
and, also, Steve Bannon has been held in contempt of Congress 
and could go to jail soon. Those are the consequences of when 
the Democrats controlled the House. They broke the rules, and 
the consequences are people have gone to jail, and they may 
soon go to jail. And tonight, we are here to hold Merrick 
Garland in contempt of Congress, and this Committee needs to be 
able to proceed forward to do that.
    I would also like to remind the Committee and anyone 
watching this, that every single time we hold a Committee 
hearing in Oversight Committee, the Democrats attack President 
Trump repeatedly. It does not matter what the issue is, does 
not matter what the topic is. They cannot produce facts. They 
cannot produce anything to make their arguments. They make it 
about personal character attacks on the former President of the 
United States and our Republican Presidential candidate. Every 
single time, they attack President Trump. They think the way to 
win an argument is to attack President Trump. You talk about 
character attacks. It goes on and on.
    Also, Members of this Committee attacked me repeatedly over 
and over and over again constantly, but they are offended when 
I say something back? And I think this needs to be called out, 
Mr. Chairman, because the hypocrisy is screaming, and the 
American people watch it every single day. And I will not 
apologize for my words, and I will not change them, and I will 
not tolerate being treated this way constantly on this 
Committee and in other committees. And I think that if we are 
going to hold hearings like this and hold Merrick Garland in 
contempt of Congress, I think we should move forward and go 
ahead and do that. But the actual behavior that happens across 
the aisle in this Committee of constant attacks on President 
Trump are unbelievable, and attacks on President Trump, the 
weaponized government against President Trump.
    I want you to know something. He may be sitting in a New 
York courtroom with a sham trial with a political judge whose 
daughter works for Democrats, but I will tell you right now, 
President Trump is up 10 points in Georgia because the American 
people see this for exactly what it is. They know what it is, 
and it is completely wrong. And the fact that our American 
people's hard-earned tax dollars were spent on the January 6 
Committee with no accountability is wrong, too. I think 
Democrats should be held accountable for that and the wrongs 
that they have committed, and the fact that Peter Navarro is in 
jail right now and Steve Bannon may have to go to jail soon.
    And, Mr. Chairman, I would ask that we can go ahead and 
move forward as soon as possible to hold Merrick Garland in 
contempt of Congress. Thank you.
    Chairman Comer. The gentlelady yields. Does any other 
Member seek recognition? Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Tonight has been 
very interesting. I want to just take a moment just to put 
today in context.
    We are here right now at this late hour to accommodate the 
Majority's field trip to praise their leader, and let us not 
forget that he left office in disgrace. Yes, gentlelady from 
Georgia, we are going to talk about that Donald Trump, who 
stole classified materials and stored them in his bathroom. He 
was investigated and indicted for his crimes. Now, Attorney 
General Garland set up a parallel investigation of President 
Biden's handling of classified documents as well, and that 
shows the Department of Justice is actually fair and 
independent. So, to oversee this investigation, he appointed 
Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney handpicked by Donald Trump. 
Robert Hur found no wrongdoing by President Biden--no 
wrongdoing by President Biden--but he chose to smear President 
Biden with a totally unprofessional and wrong assessment of the 
President's age and mental sharpness. Now, as we know, his 
assessment about President Biden was wrong because you can 
literally yourself read the transcript, which is over 250 pages 
long.
    Now, many of us, especially us Democrats, know the 
President. He is sharp. He is focused on the big issues. He is 
dealing with large challenges across the world. Now, the 
Majority is hyping up this issue to distract us from the fact 
that Donald Trump keeps embarrassing himself in public, and as 
much as a gentlelady from Georgia and others may not like it, 
we know that Trump's public statements have been crazy and 
incoherent for years. And we know that he is too tired and 
sleepy to stay awake through his own criminal trial. It is not 
President Biden who is not sharp. It is, in fact, Donald Trump.
    Now, let us look at public reporting. I am only going to 
talk about public reporting. His criminal trial started on 
April 15, and here is a summary of the press reports. On his 
first day of his trial, Reuters reported that Trump appeared to 
doze off during jury selection. On April 16, it was reported 
that Trump dropped his head inside the courtroom, keeping his 
eyes closed before jolting his head upright. On April 19, the 
New York Times reported, Trump's eyes remained ``closed for 
extended periods'' during the final day of jury selection. On 
April 22, MSNBC reported that Trump's lawyers were fighting to 
keep him awake. On April 30, NBC and the New York Times 
reported that Trump nodded off for significant portions of 
witness testimony, and as we all know, basically kept his eyes 
closed for hours and hours on end. On May 9, Trump's eyes 
remained closed for many minutes, and Trump later, of course, 
dozed on and off, and the reports go on and on. May 13, Trump 
was ``asleep during the afternoon session.'' On May 14, a 
political reporter said Trump slouched in his seat and closed 
his eyes and his mouth.
    [Photo.]
    Now, here we have a photo of Donald Trump, of course, 
through some of his trial, and I bring this up because it is 
Donald Trump that is asleep, and it is hurting and dividing our 
country. And this attack on President Biden and his mental 
acuteness, or his ability or his age is completely just a 
reason and an excuse for the Republicans to continue to attack 
President Biden when we all know that Donald Trump is the one 
that is unfit to be President. And that is why the Majority is 
so desperate to be here today because they want to help him get 
elected and hurt President Biden. Well, it is not going to 
work, and with that I yield back.
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman yields back. I now recognize 
myself, first, to offer an amendment. The clerk will distribute 
the amendment to all Members.
    Ms. Boebert. Are we done?
    Chairman Comer. No, no, we are not done. We are not done. I 
am just going to do an amendment, and then we will have all the 
debate we want, and I know Mr. Goldman has an amendment he 
wants to offer. Mrs. Luna has an amendment, and--we can go 
back. Everybody will have an opportunity to talk. We are just 
going to go ahead and do the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. Does everyone have a copy? OK, Ms. Boebert? Ms. 
Boebert, I have to allow people to speak on the ANS, if they 
want, right now, so I will recognize you for 5 minutes.
    Ms. Boebert. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I just want to 
apologize to the American people. I do not think that this is 
the best use of our time when we are squabbling. It is one 
thing to have fun and laugh as Members of Congress and try to 
find humor or some sort of lightheartedness in what we are 
doing, but when things get as heated as they have, it is, 
unfortunately, an embarrassment on our body as a whole. And so, 
I just want to personally apologize to the American people for 
that.
    But we are here to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in 
contempt of Congress for ignoring subpoenas and believing that 
he is above the law. We simply want to hear what was said in 
the interview that was transcribed. Yes, we have the 
transcriptions, but the White House has recently edited 
President Biden's mistakes by labeling them ``inaudible'' in 
transcripts. The Committee Members must be able to assess for 
themselves that the transcripts accurately reflects the true 
content of the interviews.
    Now, the American people, fortunate or unfortunate, have 
heard Joe Biden speak for over 3 years now, really, if you 
include the campaign about 4 years, and we have witnessed in 
real time a massive cognitive decline. President Trump, when he 
was in office, he underwent testing for his cognitive 
dissidence, for his ability to function as President of the 
United States as the Commander-in-Chief. And unfortunately, I 
have not seen Joe Biden even read a teleprompter properly and 
get through the reading without also adding in what is in the 
brackets when he needs to take a pause. And there are many 
things that we could go on here, but I want to hear the 
inflections in Joe Biden's responses when he is answering these 
questions.
    Now, on February 27, 2024, the Oversight Committee issued a 
subpoena for relevant information regarding the special 
counsel's investigation, including the transcript and any 
recordings of the special counsel's interviews with President 
Biden in October 2023. Now, to date, the Department of Justice 
has refused to provide the Committee the audio recordings. It 
is a very simple request. It can be provided at any time, but 
maybe, just maybe, this Administration, that has tried to cover 
up so much and tried to physically lift up Joe Biden and keep 
him upright, is hiding even more. So, we just want to hear how 
that interview actually went.
    I am in favor of moving forward to hold Attorney General 
Merrick in contempt of Congress. I think there are many other 
things that we need to have him in for and move forward on in 
holding him accountable. I mean, he has gone after so many 
American citizens--moms and dads who attend school board 
meetings, those of the Catholic faith. The DOJ has been 
completely weaponized, and it is very sad for our country.
    But this hearing will continue. We have many amendments. I 
am sure there will be much dialog. Hopefully, there is some 
decorum on both sides of the aisle. And if, in my remaining 1 
minute, I could request, every so often, Mr. Garcia, maybe you 
could just lift up that picture of President Trump sleeping, as 
you say. I think he is praying, but if he is sleeping, he 
certainly looks pretty while he sleeps. Maybe it is an 
endearing moment of prayer, though. I know when I fall asleep 
on airplanes, my mouth kind of drops open and his mouth is kind 
of tightlipped. So, maybe, it is just a somber moment of 
thought.
    Mr. Garcia. I mean he is sleeping. It has been reported by 
multiple press outlets that he was actually sleeping.
    Ms. Boebert. I was in the courtroom today, and I could see 
why someone would fall asleep just like George Conway fell 
asleep today in the court hearing. It is kind of slow in there. 
It is not as exciting as the House Oversight Committee, but I 
just wanted to say that is a lovely picture you have of 
President Trump, Mr. Garcia.
    Mr. Garcia. Thank you.
    Ms. Boebert. Thank you, and I yield.
    Chairman Comer. The gentlelady yields back. Does any other 
Member wish to speak on the underlying? Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In preparing for this 
markup, I wanted to do a little bit of work to understand why 
the Oversight Committee is trying to hold the Attorney General 
of the Department of Justice in contempt. The Oversight 
Committee does not have jurisdiction over the Department of 
Justice, the Judiciary Committee does, and I understand the 
Judiciary Committee held a markup of their own today on the 
same exact contempt motion. And so, I thought, oh, well, let us 
take a look at the impeachment investigation. It must be coming 
from that.
    So, I looked at the impeachment resolution that was passed 
on December 13, 2023, H.Res. 918, and it refers to a memorandum 
dated September 27, 2023 from the three Chairs that was 
entitled, ``Impeachment Inquiry.'' It is 30 pages long, this 
memorandum, and there is not a single mention of classified 
documents, or Special Counsel Robert Hur, or Joe Biden 
possessing classified documents. And so, Mr. Chairman, I would 
ask what on earth we are doing here in the Oversight Committee 
when we have no jurisdiction to be holding the Attorney General 
in contempt, and I will happily yield to you if you would like 
to respond.
    [No response.]
    Mr. Goldman. He does not want to respond.
    Mr. Gosar. I will respond.
    Mr. Goldman. Go ahead, Mr. Gosar.
    Mr. Gosar. Yes, we actually set the precedent in my first 
term, or second term in regard to holding Mr. Holder 
accountable in contempt in this very office or this very 
Committee, and----
    Mr. Goldman. But, if I may, just reclaiming my time, that 
was related to an investigation that this Committee was doing.
    What Special Counsel Hur was investigating has nothing to 
do with anything that this Committee is investigating. I 
understand that the impeachment investigation that you all ran 
was such a massive flop and a bust, that you would like to try 
to distract from that complete humiliation, but doing so 
outside of your jurisdiction is probably not the best way to do 
it. And in reality, not only was this absurdly postponed so 
some people could go prostrate themselves in front of their 
dear leader today in New York and we are now at 10 night, but 
we have absolutely no reason to be here. We have no 
jurisdiction over this matter.
    It was properly in front of the Judiciary Committee. The 
Judiciary Committee will do what they want to do over there in 
the Department of Justice, but it is truly a reflection, an 
unfortunate reflection, of how desperate the Chairman is to 
distract from what was a monumental bust of an impeachment 
investigation. And so----
    Mr. Biggs. Will the gentleman for a question?
    Mr. Goldman. Not quite yet, Mr. Biggs. I will get to you.
    Mr. Biggs. Thanks.
    Mr. Goldman. And so, I would urge the Chairman to explain 
to all of us what, other than pure distraction from the 
impeachment investigation that seems to be over now, as to why 
we are here at 10 at night marking up something over which we 
have no jurisdiction. Mr. Biggs, happy to yield to you.
    Mr. Biggs. Thank you. Thanks so much. I guess my question 
is, on your jurisdiction position, your position that we lack 
jurisdiction, I am wondering what you think of Rule X of the 
Committee's jurisdiction and also----
    Mr. Goldman. Well----
    Mr. Biggs [continuing]. And also----
    Mr. Goldman. I do not have Rule X memorized, Mr. Biggs.
    Mr. Biggs. Well, take a look at it. Let me see if I can 
just give you a slight----
    Mr. Goldman. Go ahead and read it just like you can read 
the transcript.
    Mr. Biggs. Yes. Well, I would prefer actually seeing the 
audio of the transcript, hearing the audio of the transcript. 
``Anything at any time,'' that is the language that is used in 
Rule X. Take a look. It might be helpful when you are making a 
lack of jurisdiction argument. The other thing is----
    Mr. Goldman. Sorry. What is ``anything at any time,'' Mr. 
Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Take a look in Rule X. I think you will change 
your position. Let me ask you this other question.
    Mr. Raskin. Would the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Goldman. Well, I will reclaim my time and yield to Mr. 
Raskin.
    Mr. Raskin. I wanted to thank the gentleman from New York 
for his trenchant remarks here. Would you think it is fair to 
say that it is not only way outside of our jurisdiction, but it 
is also redundant given that the Judiciary Committee, which has 
jurisdiction has already acted?
    Mr. Goldman. Well, of course. This is already going to go 
to the House Floor regardless of whatever we do, so it is a 
shame that this Committee feels so desperate to latch on to 
some victory that we need to hold a completely redundant, 
unnecessary markup over something that we have no jurisdiction. 
Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
    Chairman Comer. And the gentleman's time has expired. Does 
anyone else seek recognition? We have some amendments to be 
offered. Can we start with the amendment process? Is everybody 
OK with that?
    I will begin. I recognize myself to first offer an 
amendment.
    The clerk will distribute the amendment to all Members. 
Everyone have my amendment?
    The clerk will please designate the amendment.
    The Clerk. Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to the Contempt Report as offered by Mr. Comer of 
Kentucky.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, the amendment is 
considered as read.
    Mr. Raskin. I reserve a point of order.
    Chairman Comer. I reserve the point of order.
    I recognize myself for 5 minutes to explain the amendment.
    Mr. Raskin. Great, and I reserve a point of order against 
the amendment. Thank you.
    Chairman Comer. As I said in my opening remarks today, the 
Department of Justice informed the Committee that President 
Biden is asserting executive privilege over the audio 
recordings of his interviews with Special Counsel Hur. Until 
today, the White House had not asserted any privilege and, in 
fact, bragged that President Biden had not asserted executive 
privilege in the interest of transparency. My amendment simply 
amends the Contempt Report to reflect that the White House has 
now asserted a privilege regarding these recordings. Though I 
believe this is a miscalculated and invalid assertion of 
executive privilege, my amendment would make the Contempt 
Report reflect today's developments from the Department of 
Justice and the White House and reflect the record as of today.
    Do any other Members wish to speak on this amendment?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. If not----
    Mr. Goldman. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mr. Goldman.
    Mr. Goldman. This is the part of the problem why you cannot 
give the Republicans nice things.
    Because it is never enough. And it is true that President 
Biden has not asserted executive privilege over the entire 
subpoena, effectively, that they responded to but for the audio 
which is redundant because you have the information. There is 
no point in having the audio other than for political partisan 
purposes. And I understand how my colleagues get irritated 
because every time you bring up something about President 
Biden, we bring up something about President Trump, but the 
reason we do is because in every single circumstance, what 
President Trump did was so egregious compared to what President 
Biden may or may not have done.
    Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over everything, 
over just about everything while he was President. It was a 
reflex of his. And here you are complaining that Joe Biden 
finally asserted executive privilege over material that you 
cannot possibly enumerate a legitimate legislative purpose 
about. There is not one. Nobody can tell me. I know you say 
that what the intonation is, is why you need this, but I can 
assure you every court of law would tell you that the 
intonation of the voice as opposed to the words on the page is 
not a legitimate legislative purpose, so----
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman, would you yield to me, Mr. 
Chairman?
    Mr. Goldman. I think it is----
    Mr. Raskin. It is Mr. Goldman's time.
    Mr. Biggs. Oh, I am sorry. I thought you had yielded Mr. 
Goldman.
    Mr. Goldman. No, that is OK. So, I do think that the 
executive privilege's assertion is yet another reason why the 
contempt motion fails, as it has previously, and contempt 
proceedings have been called off when the last Administration 
has asserted executive privilege. If you would like to 
challenge the executive privilege, you may do so. You may go to 
court. But to hold the Attorney General in contempt over 
something that the President has asserted executive privilege 
is completely illegal and improper.
    So, in addition to the jurisdictional problem, you also 
have an executive privilege problem because you cannot hold 
someone in contempt for something they have no control over, 
whether it is asserted executive privilege. You are welcome to 
go to court. You can go to court and challenge the assertion of 
executive privilege. That has happened before. Don McGahn has a 
very well-known case now that was litigated because the 
President asserted executive privilege over him. But this is a 
legitimate use of executive privilege, and if you disagree, go 
to court. But this contempt hearing and this contempt motion is 
completely nullified by the assertion of executive privilege.
    Mr. Raskin. Would the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Goldman. Yes, I yield to Mr. Raskin
    Mr. Raskin. And thank you again for your clarifying 
analysis of the contempt citations. Some of our colleagues 
invoked the cases of Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro and Steve 
Bannon. We are talking about people in those cases who never 
produced a single document and never spent a minute before the 
Committee. They completely blew off their subpoenas, which is 
why they were held in contempt by the Congress, and then they 
were subjected to criminal prosecution for it.
    Now, you compare that to the case of the Attorney General 
in the United States, who produced precisely the document that 
was being sought, all 250 pages of it. Then there is a bait and 
switch, and then it said, oh well, no, now we want the 
audiotape. He has a very reasonable invocation, I assume, of 
executive privilege, although I have not looked at it, but in 
any event not anything that you would base a criminal arrest 
upon given that he overwhelmingly complied with the demands of 
the Committee, and I think everybody has got to concede that.
    And if you want to make the argument splitting hairs that, 
well, through some intonation or accent in the audiotape that a 
high crime and misdemeanor might emerge, then please make that 
argument. If somebody could even offer us a hypothetical of how 
we could ground this in the jurisdictional authority and the 
legitimate exercise of power of this Committee, explain how the 
audiotape could reveal some intonation or accent that would 
produce the holy grail that you have been looking for, for 18 
or 19 months, which is a high crime or misdemeanor, and so far 
nobody has uttered a peep about it. Thank you for yielding, Mr. 
Goldman.
    Mr. Goldman. I yield back.
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman's time has expired. The 
question is on the amendment--Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, the point 
of deciding that we need to release this audio is really simple 
from my analysis. This is an opportunity for your party to take 
an opportunity to try to mock the current President. I know a 
lot of people refer to the former President as ``President,'' 
but we have one President at a time, and that is Joe Biden. And 
seemingly, this type of attitude and position has come straight 
from the top. This idea of lacking all decorum, decency has 
left the building when the stench of Donald Trump showed up. 
And so, we have seen constantly from him how he mocks people. 
We have seen in this Committee how different Members want to 
mock other Members, and that is all this is about.
    But what is so frustrating to me and what should be 
frustrating to the American people, and the reason that really 
all you all should lose you all's jobs, but why we are going to 
take the majority is simple, is because we showed up ready to 
work earlier today like we always do. And now, it is currently 
10 p.m., and we are still here because we are committed to 
doing the right thing. And my question is really simple. It is 
a matter of if this was such a big deal, if it was a matter of 
an emergency, if this was so important as it relates to whether 
or not the President of the United States has done something so 
wrong, then why is it that we could not have our hearing at 11 
this morning instead of Members being in a criminal courthouse 
with a twice-impeached, over 88-count-indicted sexual abuser 
instead of being here to do the work of the American people if 
this was serious? This is the reason that people do not believe 
that we are doing serious work here----
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman, point of order.
    Chairman Comer. Go ahead. State your point.
    Mr. Biggs. My point of order is this. She just engaged in 
personalities about a former President, which you just 
reviewed----
    Ms. Crockett. You cannot engage in personalities with a 
former President? That is not the----
    Mr. Biggs. You just reviewed the rules, and you know that 
it is true. If you were on the Floor, you would be admonished. 
You know that.
    Ms. Crockett. Not the rules. That is not the rules.
    Mr. Biggs. Mr. Chairman, I will further say, if this 
happened on the Floor----
    Chairman Comer. Right.
    Mr. Biggs [continuing]. You would be admonished by the 
parliamentarian.
    Chairman Comer. Your point is correct.
    Mr. Raskin. No, no. In this circumstance, you made an 
announcement, I believe, that points of order about insulting 
Presidents or former Presidents are not in order in this 
hearing because, I take it, you are going after Joe Biden and 
so----
    I think you carved out an exception to that rule.
    Chairman Comer. OK, point of order overruled. Ms. Crockett, 
finish please.
    Ms. Crockett. I will yield the remainder of my time.
    Chairman Comer. Thank you.
    Mr. Connolly. Would my friend yield to me?
    Ms. Crockett. Yes, I will yield the remainder of my time.
    Mr. Connolly. I thank the gentlelady. Originally, we have a 
motion, an ANS, to hold the Attorney General in contempt 
because he did not produce one item, an audiotape of the 
transcripts that were provided in full. And we decided 
apparently that that was what we were going to do because we 
are not sure about our chances in a court of law, which is 
really where this needs to be adjudicated. Now we have an 
amendment to the ANS taking cognizance of the development today 
in which the White House, not an unusual development and not 
always justified, invokes executive privilege.
    Now that is as old as the republic. In fact, the first 
President to invoke executive privilege was George Washington 
who did not want to provide documents regarding the Jay Treaty 
because it was controversial, and it might embarrass the White 
House. And we have had ups and downs with respect to executive 
privilege ever since, but the proper venue for adjudicating 
this is in a court of law. It is not this Committee.
    And so now, this amendment to the amendment is essentially 
holding an attorney general in contempt because they are 
invoking executive privilege to protect information they choose 
not to provide the Congress, and I find that a very narrow 
basis. And I can understand why you do not want to have this 
adjudicated in a court of law because I do not know that any 
judge would find that we have substantial reason to hold 
somebody in contempt for noncompliance. I thank the gentlelady 
lady for yielding.
    Chairman Comer. Do you yield back?
    Ms. Crockett. I yield the remainder to the Ranking Member.
    Mr. Raskin. And I yield back to you, Ms. Crockett.
    Ms. Crockett. OK. Then I yield.
    Chairman Comer. Thank you. The question is now on the 
amendment offered by the Chairman.
    All those in favor signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    All those opposed signify by saying no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it, and the 
amendment is agreed to.
    Mr. Raskin. Recorded vote, please, Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. A recorded vote has been requested by 
Ranking Member Raskin. OK.
    The clerk will call the roll.
    A recorded vote is ordered.
    As previously announced, further proceedings on the 
question will be postponed.
    Mr. LaTurner. Mr. Chairman, parliamentary inquiry?
    Chairman Comer. Yes, Mr. LaTurner.
    Mr. LaTurner. I think an actual one which is rare. Would it 
be a proper motion for me to make--this is an important 
amendment offered by the Chairman of the Committee--would it be 
a proper motion for me to make that we hold the vote on this 
specific amendment immediately and not roll it to the end? 
Would that be a proper motion for me to make?
    Chairman Comer. Yes. That motion is in order. Do you want 
to----
    Mr. LaTurner. I would make that motion.
    Mr. Fallon. Second.
    Chairman Comer. OK. Motion and second. OK.
    Mr. Raskin. What is the motion?
    Chairman Comer. OK. All right.
    The clerk will call the vote on the amendment.
    It was a request.
    All right.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    Mr. Jordan. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan votes yes.
    Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes aye.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes aye.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes aye.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes aye.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes aye.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes aye.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes aye.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes aye.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes aye.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes aye.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes aye.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes aye.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes aye.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes aye.
    Mr. Waltz?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes no.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes no.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes no.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes. How has Dr. Foxx been recorded?
    The Clerk. Dr. Foxx is not yet recorded.
    Ms. Foxx. Foxx votes aye.
    Chairman Comer. What about----
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes aye.
    Chairman Comer [continuing]. Mr. Grothman? Has he been 
recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman is not recorded.
    Mr. Grothman. Aye.
    Chairman Comer. And----
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes aye.
    Chairman Comer. How has Mr. Waltz been recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz is not recorded.
    Mr. Waltz. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes aye.
    Chairman Comer. How has Mr. Krishnamoorthi been recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi is not recorded.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. I vote no.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes no.
    Chairman Comer. Does any other Member wish to vote?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. Seeing none, will the clerk please report 
the tally?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, your vote.
    Chairman Comer. I voted yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Mr. Chairman, on this vote the ayes are 24. The nays are 
19.
    Chairman Comer. The ayes have it, and the amendment is 
adopted.
    Mrs. Luna. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes?
    Mrs. Luna. I have an amendment at the desk.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair recognizes Mrs. Luna.
    Mrs. Luna. Has it been distributed?
    Chairman Comer. Will the clerk please report the amendment?
    Mr. Raskin. I reserve point order, Mr. Chairman.
    The Clerk. An amend----
    Chairman Comer. Before that, Clerk--you have a point of 
order, Mr.----
    Mr. Raskin. I am just reserving it.
    Chairman Comer. OK. Reserving it. Clerk, please report the 
amendment.
    The Clerk. Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to the Contempt Report as offered by Mrs. Luna of 
Florida.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, amendment is considered 
as read.
    I reserve a point of order.
    The gentlelady from Florida, Mrs. Luna, is recognized for 5 
minutes to explain the amendment.
    Mrs. Luna. I wanted to offer this amendment because I, like 
so many Americans, have, frankly, lost faith in the justice 
system. And there was some comments made earlier by my 
colleague, Mr. Goldman, who I actually very much so enjoy 
debating with on this Committee, but he said that Oversight did 
not have authority in regards to contempt proceedings. And 
during my time off for maternity, after I was told that I could 
not vote, I actually spent that time reading the House Rule 
Book and Manual. And there is something that has not been used 
since the early 1900's called inherent contempt of Congress. It 
is actually something that any one individual Member reserves 
as their right and authority in the House of Representatives.
    And the reason why we are here today is because the 
Attorney General thought he was above the law and did not 
comply not just with one subpoena, but with two subpoenas. 
Those are subpoenas from both Chairman Jordan and Chairman 
Comer. I want to read this to you because, ultimately, if in 10 
days, the Department of Justice does not do their job and hold 
the Attorney General responsible just like they would any other 
American, I think that it should be our job in the House of 
Representatives to bring an inherent contempt proceeding 
against the Attorney General, of which I have already filed 
that privilege motion over a week ago.
    And so, although I realize that my Democrat colleagues 
might have an issue with this and I am willing to retract the 
amendment, I would like to read it real quickly in saying that, 
``Resolved, that if in 10 days after the passage of this 
report, the Department of Justice had failed to indict Attorney 
General Garland, the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
shall issue his warrant commanding the Sergeant-at-Arms of his 
duty to take into custody the body of the said Attorney General 
Garland, wherever found, and bring him to the said Attorney 
General Garland before the Bar of the House of Representatives, 
then and there to provide documents, materials, and answer such 
questions pertinent to the matter under inquiry as the House of 
Representatives may order the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives to propound, and to keep the said Attorney 
General Garland in custody to await further orders of the House 
of Representatives.''
    This is something that we reserve as an authority in order 
to bring back order to a House that has seemed to have 
forgotten it. And so, with that, Chairman, I just wanted to let 
you all know as my colleagues, because I am sure we will debate 
this on the Floor, I fully intend in 10 days after this passes 
out of Committee to hold Attorney General Garland in inherent 
contempt of Congress if the Department of Justice does not do 
their job. And with that, Chairman, I am going to withdraw my 
amendment, and thank you.
    Mr. Moskowitz. Mr. Chairman, I have a question on the----
    Chairman Comer. I thank the lady for withdrawing, for 
raising this issue, and please note that she withdrew her 
amendment. OK. We are going to suspend for one moment.
    [Pause.]
    Chairman Comer. OK. The Committee will reconvene.
    I understand, Mr. Goldman, you have an amendment?
    Mr. Goldman. I do, Mr. Chair.
    Chairman Comer. Will the clerk please report?
    The Clerk. Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to the Contempt Report as offered by Mr. Goldman of 
New York.
    Chairman Comer. Without objection, the amendment is 
considered as read.
    I reserve a point of order.
    The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 minutes to 
explain his amendment.
    Mr. Goldman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This amendment 
details and enumerates exactly what the subpoena requested and 
exactly what the Department of Justice has done in response to 
that subpoena, and I will summarize that the subpoena of 
February 12 requested all documents and communications, 
including audio and video recordings related to the special 
counsel's interview of President Biden, as well as the special 
counsel's interview of Mark Zwonitzer, who is the ghostwriter 
of President Biden's book or books; three, the documents 
identified as A-9 and A-10 in Appendix A of Mr. Hur's report; 
and four, all communications between or among representatives 
of the Department of Justice, including the Office of Special 
Counsel, the Executive Office of the President, and President 
Biden's personal counsel, referring or relating to Mr. Hur's 
report.
    Obviously, it goes almost without saying that that last 
request is completely improper, would be deliberative process 
and executive privilege, although I do not think they 
determined executive privilege, but there is no basis for 
Congress to get internal communications within the Department 
of Justice about decisions they have made. And if you have any 
question about that, you should go refer back to your favorite 
former President and his Administration, where they used that 
repeatedly.
    In response to the subpoena, the special counsel or, 
rather, the Department of Justice provided the unredacted 
report, as you know, the transcripts of the interviews of 
President Biden and Mr. Zwonitzer, provided the documents 
identified as A-9 and A-10. So, really, the only thing that 
could even be considered as a legitimate request that the 
Department of Justice withheld is the audio recording of the 
two interviews, about which there already is a transcript.
    And so, the question that this amendment begs is if the 
Majority thinks that giving substantially the entire subpoena 
response--responding with substantially everything that the 
subpoena asks for warrants contempt of Congress, what does the 
Majority think about somebody who, I do not know, refuses to 
respond to a subpoena altogether? Maybe Chairman Jordan has a 
response to that, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Perry? Because I am pretty 
sure that they each received duly authorized subpoenas, and I 
appreciate that the gentlelady from Georgia----
    Mr. Biggs. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Goldman. In one sec I will. I appreciate that the 
gentlelady----
    Mr. Biggs. Well, you asked me to respond.
    Mr. Goldman. I will, 1 second. The gentlelady from Georgia, 
with her esteemed legal knowledge, determined that the January 
6 Committee was not a legitimate committee when, unfortunately, 
a number of actual courts of law determined that it was. So, 
those subpoenas to Members of Congress were duly authorized 
subpoenas.
    And if Merrick Garland is going to be held in contempt and 
is going to be threatened with inherent contempt and sent to a 
nonexistent jail in the basement of the Congress, then what is 
going to happen to those witnesses who just outright defy 
congressional subpoenas, because I do think the Majority ought 
to be careful about the precedent that it sets. Because Mrs. 
Luna, I am happy--happy--to reinstitute right now with you 
inherent contempt. And I can assure you that when you consult 
with the rest of your party, nobody will want it because----
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Goldman [continuing]. It will be much, much worse for 
you than for the Democrats.
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Goldman. I am happy to yield, yes.
    Mrs. Luna. I just like to point out that inherent contempt 
or contempt, to my understanding, cannot be brought forward in 
a new Congress even if it has been a past violation. I know 
because I actually inquired on Cohen today, so just so you are 
aware.
    Mr. Goldman. No, no. I am not suggesting that we bring 
inherent contempt----
    Mrs. Luna. Well, just to clarify.
    Mr. Goldman [continuing]. For any past subpoenas. I am 
talking about the precedent that you are----
    Mr. Biggs. Are you right now willing to yield, Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. Mr. Biggs, yes.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chair?
    Mr. Biggs. Thank you. Thank you for yielding to me. First 
of all, you made a personal reference, again, about Mr. Jordan, 
about myself, and about Mr. Perry, which we had agreed that we 
would not do, but I am going to respond to you. We asserted 
that we had not received service.
    Mr. Goldman. OK.
    Mr. Biggs. And that is how we responded. End of story.
    Mr. Goldman. So, your response is that you did not receive 
service of the subpoena. I just want to be clear. That is why 
you did not comply?
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman's time has expired. The 
gentleman's time has expired.
    Mr. Goldman. I thought so. I yield.
    Chairman Comer. Do any other Members wish to speak on the 
Goldman Amendment? The Chair recognizes Mr. Fry from South 
Carolina for 5 minutes.
    Mr. Fry. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I oppose this amendment 
by Mr. Goldman. Mr. Goldman's amendment is just an attempt to 
distract from the very obvious and clear fact that the Attorney 
General has failed to comply with a duly issued subpoena. The 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court has stated that 
the level of grave accusations that a President may have 
committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes of 
misdemeanors, the House must be appropriately informed. Mr. 
Goldman's amendment completely ignores the fact that audio 
recordings, as he knows as a lawyer, are material to 
understanding the full context of President Biden's mishandling 
of classified documents, his credibility as a witness, and his 
fitness to serve as President of the United States. Quite 
simply, the Attorney General has not complied with two 
subpoenas. Mr. Goldman's amendment completely distracts from 
that obvious fact.
    And I will remind my colleagues that a subpoena is not a 
menu. It is not an a la carte menu that you can choose what you 
comply with or not. You either produce the requested materials 
or you do not. And when Mr. Goldman was with the Department of 
Justice, he probably did not allow criminal defendants to pick 
and choose what subpoenas they were going to comply with. And 
so, just simply put, this amendment is just about helping 
President Biden hide in a basement but by other means.
    Mr. Goldman. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Fry. No, sir.
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman's time is expired. Or he 
yielded back. Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The gentleman from 
South Carolina just implied, more than implied, that there is 
evidence the President of the United States committed high 
crimes and misdemeanors. The Hur report finds otherwise. He, in 
fact, found no grounds for proceeding. That might be an 
unpleasant fact, but it is a fact. In addition, there is no 
committee in this Congress that has found the President of the 
United States guilty of high crimes or misdemeanors, nor is the 
President currently the subject of the charge that he is 
guilty----
    Mr. Fry. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Connolly [continuing]. That he is guilty of high crimes 
and misdemeanors.
    Mr. Fry. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Connolly. So, if we are going to take care in invoking 
Presidents' names and characterizing them, their circumstances, 
or their legal standing, let us at least stick to the facts. I 
yield back.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr.----
    Mr. Fry. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Connolly. I am sorry. I yield first to the Ranking 
Member.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you, Mr. Connolly, and I want to further 
clarify this issue for our colleague because I did have some 
familiarity with these contempt motions. Now, when the January 
6 Committee, whose legality and constitutionality was 
repeatedly upheld by the D.C. Circuit and no court ever 
rejected it, issued subpoenas and requests to testify, hundreds 
of people cooperated. More than 900 people did what the vast 
majority of Americans do. You get a subpoena, you go, and you 
testify. If you get a subpoena for documents, you turn over the 
documents.
    There was a tiny handful of people who blew off the 
subpoenas. Some of them claimed to be invoking executive 
privilege even when Donald Trump did not invoke executive 
privilege. Some of them were not even working for the 
government when they purported to invoke executive privilege, 
and they were referred for contempt motions and voted that way, 
and then prosecutions were brought only against those people 
who categorically did not participate.
    I will give you an example of someone who kind of did the 
hokey pokey--he was sort of in and sort of out--and that was 
Paul Manafort, and he participated some and then some not. 
There were some other witnesses--Mark Meadows, that is who I am 
thinking of. Mark Meadows is the one who turned over a whole 
bunch of stuff, and then we understand Donald Trump was not 
pleased and he stopped cooperating, but he was never held for 
contempt because he had at least partially complied, OK?
    So, now you are talking about the Attorney General of the 
United States who has invoked executive privilege for one very 
small part of the overall subpoena but has materially, 
substantially, and overwhelmingly complied in this case, by 
turning over the entire document that was subpoenaed, which was 
the President's testimony. And now people are talking about 
invoking the inherent power of contempt of Congress, which has 
not been used in more than a century, to go and arrest him 
because you did not get the audiotape?
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield, please?
    Mr. Raskin. For a quick question, sure.
    Mr. Connolly. Actually, it is my time.
    Mr. Raskin. Oh, I am sorry.
    Mr. Connolly. And I yield to the Ranking Member.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you. Just to complete my----
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentlemen yield for a question?
    Mr. Raskin. I will just complete my point, and I will yield 
back to the very distinguished gentleman from Virginia. So, I 
think that our colleagues should really think about what they 
are talking about here. You understand that when he was 
President, Donald Trump invoked executive privilege and cutoff 
all cooperation with legislative committees in more than a 
hundred cases. You are saying he could have been arrested a 
hundred times and thrown into jail, and do not bury your faces 
in your phones. I mean, I just want you to follow the principle 
of your argument that Congress can throw anyone in jail if 
there is----
    Mrs. Luna. Will the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Raskin. I will yield back to my distinguished----
    Mr. Connolly. I would yield to the gentlelady, yes.
    Mrs. Luna. I think the whole point of this, and this is not 
tit for tat, this is a very serious thing in that Congress used 
to be respected. We are no longer respected because people do 
not respect our authority. And so, the inherent contempt 
clause--I am not hoping that he is thrown in jail. What I am 
saying is that he has violated a law, something that we have as 
a privilege, and as a result of that, any other American would 
be in trouble or in jail because of it. And, so----
    Mr. Connolly. Reclaiming my time. I want the gentlelady to 
know that on the principle of inherent contempt, I actually 
agree. I believe that the courts are too slow in enforcing 
congressional subpoenas, and, therefore, the work of the 
legislative body is impeded. But, that begs the question of 
whether there are serious grounds on which to bring a contempt 
citation, and if we are going to use----
    Mrs. Luna. Would the gentleman yield?
    Mr. Connolly. If we are going to use that power, we had 
better use it very carefully and thoughtfully, and I do not 
believe this proceeding against Merrick Garland meets that 
criteria, but thank you for the point.
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman's time has expired. The Chair 
now recognizes Mr. Jordan for 5 minutes.
    Mrs. Luna. Mr. Chairman?
    Mr. Jordan. I thank the Chair. Independent and impartial, 
that is what they told us. Attorney General of the United 
States says we will administer justice in an impartial fashion. 
The White House said we will let the Justice Department operate 
in an independent fashion. The key question for this Committee, 
the key question for the Judiciary Committee earlier today was, 
was the decision not to prosecute President Biden consistent 
with that commitment that President Biden and Attorney General 
Garland gave the country. It is key question for the Congress 
when we are doing our oversight.
    Trump was charged. Biden was not. We know that is the case. 
Was there a commitment to impartiality and independence? Was 
that what was actually going on, particularly when you look at 
what Robert Hur found, page 1 of his report: ``Our 
investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully 
retained, willfully disclosed classified materials after his 
vice presidency when he was a private citizen.'' So, he met the 
elements of the crime. He kept information he was not allowed 
to keep. He shared information he was not allowed to share. 
Now, why would he do that? Well, guess what? Robert Hur told us 
that, too, page 231 of the report. He says it right here: ``Mr. 
Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures 
for safeguarding classified material. He had decided months 
before to write a book,'' so he had motive. The motive was the 
book he wrote for which he got paid, by the way, $8 million in 
advance, so he had an $8 million motive. He met the elements of 
the crime, but he is not being charged.
    Now, one of the things we have to evaluate as Congress, the 
legislative branch, is are they administering justice in a fair 
and equal fashion? It is a fair question, and the best way to 
determine that is to get all the evidence and the best 
evidence. The best evidence, the purest evidence would be the 
audiotape. The transcript is great. I would argue he has 
already waived privilege when he gave us the transcript, but we 
want the audiotape because that is the best evidence. That is 
the best evidence we can have as the body who is supposed to do 
oversight. It is part of our constitutional duty.
    In order to do that, we should get the best--that is the 
simple question. We can get into all the other fights we get 
into in Congress. God bless us, that is how it goes, but to me, 
that is the fundamental question. The elements of the crime 
were met, both of them, and by the way, he knew the rules. He 
had only been in government 50 years, chaired the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee, Vice President of the United 
States getting a daily briefing, intelligence briefing all the 
time. He knew the rules, did not follow them, shared them with 
the ghost writer, did it for $8 million, but was not charged. 
Why? Why? Because Mr. Hur said he is a forgetful, elderly 
gentleman. That is what he told us.
    So, we want to evaluate it all, and the best way to do that 
is to get all the evidence. That is all this is about, plain 
and simple. I yield back
    Chairman Comer. The gentleman yields back. The Chair now 
recognizes Ms. Stansbury from New Mexico.
    Ms. Stansbury. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to 
make some points for the record on this amendment and on this 
proceeding this evening, and I want to start off by first 
saying to my colleagues across the aisle, welcome back to 
Washington, DC. I know it is late, and I know a bunch of you 
have been traveling. You were on the road today, and I know you 
must be tired. You all were visiting Donald Trump's trial today 
to defend his porn star hush money case.
    [Photos]
    And, in fact, we have some cute pictures of you here today, 
and they are some cute pictures, so congratulations, and also 
some from the last few days, and it looks like you guys had a 
good time in the courtroom today.
    But you know what? I do not know, the Speaker looks a 
little bit stressed here. I mean, it is lot, right, to ask 
someone who is facing a criminal trial and running for 
President to ask his political allies to travel over 200 miles 
on a voting day here in Congress to pop up to New York and snap 
some cute pictures to defend him because the judge has ordered 
him to stop threatening the jurors in his own trial. I mean, 
some might actually view this as direct interference in a 
criminal court case. It is not exactly law and order, as our 
friends like to talk about all the time.
    But I want to just take a moment to let you all know what 
you missed today while you were up in New York. You missed some 
votes. Yes, you were not here. You did not show up for votes. 
You did not vote on some of the bills that you claimed were 
your priorities, some of your public safety and border bills. I 
can see you had some important business to take care of here 
today. And as the Ranking Member noted, the Chairman did manage 
to find time today, after they canceled the hearing this 
morning, to have his political fundraising team send out this 
fundraising email. And I do genuinely hope you made some good 
money off of it because we are not actually supposed to use the 
resources that the taxpayers fund in this Committee to 
fundraise off of.
    But it does really make you wonder why we are sitting here 
at 10:30 at night after this is the activities that the GOP 
were engaged in earlier today when we were supposed to be 
having this hearing, these fundraising emails went out. Why are 
we here? Why are we using taxpayer official resources in this 
Committee right now? I mean, could it be political? I mean, it 
would make sense why you guys rescheduled and skipped votes and 
went up to New York, and here we are. And if there is any 
indication that this impeachment scheme is in its flop era, I 
do not know what is. This Committee has spent 17 months 
reviewing 3.8 million pages of documents--3.8 million pages of 
documents--80 hours of recorded testimony and not turned up a 
single shred of evidence in this impeachment scheme, and yet 
you still had time to go to Donald Trump's trial where he is 
about to be convicted.
    And so, you know, I think it is very clear what all of this 
is about. The GOP is using this Committee and its resources to 
make countless misleading and false statements to try to spin a 
political narrative to fundraise off of it in a blatantly 
partisan effort to support Donald Trump's reelection. If you 
need any evidence, it is right here behind me. So, I thought it 
was important to really set the record straight on this. This 
is not a taxpayer-funded campaign effort. And if you needed any 
evidence that that is what the Majority is involved in here, I 
think it is very clear that that is what this hearing is all 
about, or we would not be sitting here at 10:30 at night after 
your little field trip. And with that, I yield back.
    Chairman Comer. The Chair now recognizes Mr. Biggs.
    Mr. Biggs. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and this hearing 
started off tonight with a crazy satire, and with the 
condescending presentation we just received, it just continues 
and perpetuates. So, I am glad we actually had an agreement 
that we were going to tone it down. This is why you cannot--it 
is tough to make deals with my colleagues across the aisle.
    They condescend, they call out individuals, and they do not 
go to the issues. That is why it is tough, folks. That is why 
it is tough, and you wonder why, but let us take a look at a 
few things here.
    It was not that the Special Counsel Hur did not find that 
criminal activity had taken place. As Mr. Jordan just pointed 
out on page 2, we found out that President Biden, after he left 
the vice presidency, he unlawfully retained and disclosed 
classified information, but he was not prosecuted. You guys 
conflate this. He was not charged, and so say, oh, see he did 
not do anything wrong. No, that is not true. He did something 
wrong, but Mr. Hur made a prosecutorial decision. He said, 
well, this is a feeble old man with a poor memory, and you know 
what, going to be tough to actually convict.
    Now, the Attorney General has received a subpoena, and this 
amendment by the gentleman from New York basically says, 
``including audio and video recordings.'' And we are told, gee, 
if he substantially complied, whoop, that is great. That is all 
you have to do. But we actually had a great example earlier 
this evening why you just might want to have the oral 
transcript. You just might want to have that oral audio 
recording. What was it? Do you remember? Nobody could 
successfully identify and isolate and remember what Ms. Greene 
said exactly. And so, we went there, and the comment was, well, 
``the best that we could determine.'' But you know what might 
have helped? An audio recording, and that is why an audio 
recording becomes valuable in this particular case as well. 
Now--yes, the best evidence, the original evidence. Now, 
President Biden has now asserted executive privilege, which is 
no longer available to him because he waived executive 
privilege when he actually provided the written transcript. He 
also went way up past the deadline. When the subpoena was due, 
that is when he should have made that assertion. He chose not 
to, and that is part of his problem. And then I think of the 
Mitchell case, and if you remember the U.S. v. Mitchell case, 
President Nixon was trying to get by with turning over what? 
Some part of the written transcript. He said this is the 
written transcript, this is what you should have, and the U.S. 
Supreme Court said, no, turn over the audio recordings. That is 
what happened in the U.S. v. Mitchell case.
    Next thing here, when we get to the jurisdiction, oh my 
goodness gracious, we do not have jurisdiction. Actually, we 
do, Rule X(c)(2). Take a look at that. ``In addition to its 
duties under subparagraph (1), the Committee on Oversight and 
Accountability may at any time conduct investigations of any 
matter without regard to Clause 1, 2, 3 of this clause 
conferring jurisdiction over the matter to another standing 
committee.'' That means we can have jurisdiction over darn near 
anything, and we have claimed jurisdiction. That means we can 
go forward with it.
    What else you got? Let us see here. Oh goodness gracious. 
It was late. It is late. Why are we here? It is late. You know 
why it is late? You know why we are here? Because the time for 
this hearing was set for 8 p.m., properly noticed. That is all 
right. And you know what? I have actually been in committees 
that have started late, after votes, when the Democrats had 
control, and we went through to midnight, 1, 2 in the morning 
when Democrats were sitting in the chair, so I do not feel bad 
about that.
    So, what you have here is the Democrats conflating 
executive privilege as well as the contempt, but the issue that 
they failed to understand is that the full compliance of the 
subpoena required disclosure of the audio recordings. It is 
right here in this proposed amendment. So, what would happen if 
you had a deposition, and you did both a video recording and a 
written transcript? Do you think the court is going to say, 
hey, look, you can have one but not the other? No, that is 
probably not going to happen. So, the time has expired.
    Chairman Comer. The time has expired. I think Ms. Crockett 
seeks recognition.
    Ms. Crockett. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do want to make 
sure that we point out some obvious differences in what the 
Majority is talking about. No. 1, we are talking about an 
interview that was voluntarily done by the sitting President of 
the United States versus someone who has obstructed at every 
angle, in fact, is continually obstructing, to the extent that 
we are waiting on the Supreme Court to give us a ruling on 
whether or not it is OK for him to commit his crimes while 
sitting in the Oval Office and be excused for them. So, we have 
got trials all over the place that are on hold because of the 
continual obstruction.
    The difference in the documents case between the former 
President and the current President could not be any clearer. 
We absolutely did not have mounds of documents sitting in 
someone's bathroom versus some that have been stored in a 
garage, but also it is this level of voluntariness. And so, for 
those that are not lawyers in the room, typically we look to 
something that is called mens rea, and mens rea is always 
talking about a level of intent, and there are various levels 
of intent. And so, while someone may be negligent, that may not 
necessarily rise to the level of criminality, but when someone 
is being intentional by making sure that they get rid of the 
video footage, they lie to their lawyers, they lie to those 
officials that are coming and inquiring of them, that is why 
you then end up facing criminal charges.
    But I also just want to make it clear because it seems like 
when we talk about conflating, that those in this legislative 
body really want to be more so on the Judiciary side of things. 
They really sound like they want to enforce various things. 
They want to enforce the law. They want to somehow decide over 
what has already been decided that the President of the United 
States should be charged with a crime, and I guess somehow they 
are going to figure out a way to charge the President.
    But I do want to remind this Committee and the Chairman 
that since day one of the 118th Congress, which is now over 17 
months, the Majority has wasted the Committee's resources, 
time, and, quite frankly, the sanity of Members and staff on a 
sham impeachment investigation that has failed to produce one 
legitimate piece of evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. 
And the ``evidence'' our Chair and Majority used as its basis 
to try to impeach the President was the FD-1023 form that has 
since found to have information from an individual who was fed 
lies by Russian assets. Now, I know the Chairman and the 
Majority on this Committee know how to read, and so, in fact, 
we heard from a Member that she has read through all the rules, 
so I am not really sure why reading this transcript is so 
difficult.
    But Members and staff on both sides of the aisle have 
combed through over 3.8 million pages of documents and 80 hours 
of testimony for nearly 20 witnesses, scouring all of this 
material to try to find any evidence of wrongdoing by President 
Biden. But lo and behold, there never was any because there 
clearly is none, because if there was, our Chairman would have 
moved forward with a vote to impeach in this Committee.
    The American people want the truth, and the truth is that 
every Member on this Committee has access to the 250 pages of 
transcript of what the President said during his voluntary sit-
down for questioning with the special counsel. But maybe my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle simply want the 
audiobook version of the transcript because they have nothing 
better to do than to listen to it on repeat on their train ride 
to and from Trump's criminal trial and veep-stakes tryouts. By 
the way, we love the matching red ties.
    Mr. Raskin. Will the gentlelady yield?
    Ms. Crockett. I will yield.
    Mr. Raskin. Thank you very much. I just wanted to make a 
point and answer to the distinguished Chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee, the special counsel in this case, on page 97 says, 
``The published book is not known to contain classified 
information.'' Special counsel was very clear that President 
Biden did not retain or use classified documents in order to 
sell his book. And you might not like the conclusions of the 
special counsel who is a Republican appointed by President 
Trump, but those were his conclusions, and either you stand by 
the rule of law, or you do not stand by the rule of law. And 
all of us have the transcript to read, and all of it bears that 
out. There was no intention by President Biden to exploit any 
classified documents. I yield back.
    Chairman Comer. The gentlelady's time has expired. The 
Chair recognizes Mr. LaTurner from Kansas.
    Mr. LaTurner. Mr. Chairman, I move the previous question.
    Chairman Comer. Motion to move to the previous question.
    Mr. Raskin. I object.
    Mr. Cloud. I second the motion.
    Chairman Comer. Motion and second.
    It is nondebatable.
    Mr. Raskin. OK.
    Chairman Comer. And all those in favor?
    Mr. Raskin. All right. Let us have a recorded vote, if we 
could, Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. The motion is not debatable. Shall the main 
question be now put, those in favor of moving the previous 
question signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    All those opposed signify by saying no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    In the opinion Chair, the ayes have it. The previous 
question is ordered.
    Mr. Raskin. I would like a recorded vote, if I could, Mr. 
Chairman
    Chairman Comer. A recorded vote is ordered. The clerk will 
call the roll.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes yes.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes aye.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes aye.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes aye.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes aye.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes aye.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes aye.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes aye.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes aye.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes aye.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes aye.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes aye.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes aye.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes aye.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes aye.
    Mr. Waltz?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, to be clear, this is a motion on 
the previous question to cutoff all debate and all amendments? 
Is that right?
    Chairman Comer. That is correct.
    Mr. Raskin. OK. And including the pending amendment or no?
    Chairman Comer. The pending amendment.
    Mr. Raskin. So, we would vote on the pending amendment, or 
we would not?
    Chairman Comer. Yes. Yes, we will vote on the pending 
amendment.
    Mr. Raskin. My vote is no. I have never seen this done in 
this Committee in 8 years by either the Democrats or the 
Republicans. I vote no on the motion on the previous question. 
No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes no.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes no.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes no.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Mr. Waltz recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz is not recorded.
    Mr. Waltz. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. How is Dr. Foxx recorded?
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx is not recorded.
    Ms. Foxx. Foxx votes yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. And how is Mr. Krishnamoorthi recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi is not recorded.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes no.
    Chairman Comer. How is Mr. Higgins recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins is not recorded.
    Mr. Higgins. I vote yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. Have all Members been recorded?
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman, would you just explain why you 
invoked that because that has not happened in 70 years in this 
Committee.
    Chairman Comer. Will the clerk please report?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 23. The 
nays are 19.
    Chairman Comer. The move to the previous question passes.
    The question is now on the pending amendment from Mr. 
Goldman.
    All those in favor signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    All those opposed signify by saying no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    In the opinion of the Chair, the noes have it----
    Mr. Raskin. Recorded vote.
    Chairman Comer [continuing]. And the amendment is not 
agreed to.
    Mr. Raskin. Request for a vote.
    Chairman Comer. A request for a recorded vote has been 
requested.
    Will the clerk please call the roll? This is on the Goldman 
Amendment.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes no.
    Ms. Foxx?
    Ms. Foxx. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes no.
    Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes no.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes no.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes nay
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes no.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes no.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes no.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes no.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes no.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes no.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes no.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes nay.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes no.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Chairman Comer. Whose name were you on?
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett.
    Chairman Comer. Mr. Burchett.
    Mr. Burchett. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes no.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes no.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes no.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes no.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. No.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes no.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes no.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes no.
    Mr. Waltz?
    Mr. Waltz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes no.
    Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes aye.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes yes.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes aye.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes aye.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes aye.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes aye.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes aye.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes aye.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes yes.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes yes.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes yes.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes yes.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes yes.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes yes.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes yes.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. Yea.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes yea.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes yes.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes yes.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes yes.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes no.
    Chairman Comer. Has Mr. Perry been recorded?
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry is recorded as no.
    Chairman Comer. Have any other Members not been recorded?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. Seeing none, will the clerk report the 
tally?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 19. The 
nays are 23.
    Chairman Comer. The Goldman Amendment fails.
    The question is now on the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to the Report.
    All those in favor signify by saying aye.
    [Chorus of ayes.]
    All those opposed signify by saying no.
    [Chorus of noes.]
    In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it. The 
amendment in the nature of a substitute to the report is 
agreed.
    Mr. Raskin. Recorded vote.
    Chairman Comer. On the ANS?
    Mr. Raskin. Yes.
    Chairman Comer. OK.
    Mr. Raskin. We are not even allowed to bring in any other 
amendments.
    Chairman Comer. Well, we have had deals and you all----
    Mr. Raskin. It has not happened in 70 years, Mr. Chairman.
    Chairman Comer. You have not----
    Mr. Raskin. Seventy years.
    Chairman Comer. We have tried to negotiate with you, and 
you have not done it.
    A recorded vote is ordered on the ANS. Will the clerk 
please report?
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    Ms. Foxx. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes yes.
    Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes yes.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes aye.
    Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes yes.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes yes.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes yes.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes yes.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes yes.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes yes.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes aye.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes aye.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. Aye.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes aye.
    Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes aye.
    Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes aye.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes aye.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes aye.
    Mr. Waltz?
    Mr. Waltz. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes aye.
    Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes nay.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes no.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes no.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes no.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. Have any Members failed to vote?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. Seeing none, will the clerk please report 
the tally?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 23. The 
nays are 19.
    Chairman Comer. The ayes have it. The motion is passed.
    The question is now on favorably reporting the report. 
Members will record their vote----
    OK. The clerk will call the roll. This is the last vote.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan?
    Mr. Jordan. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Jordan votes yes.
    Mr. Turner?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar?
    Mr. Gosar. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Gosar votes yes.
    Ms. Foxx?
    Ms. Foxx. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Foxx votes yes.
    Mr. Grothman?
    Mr. Grothman. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Grothman votes yes.
    Mr. Cloud?
    Mr. Cloud. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Cloud votes yes.
    Mr. Palmer?
    Mr. Palmer. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Palmer votes aye.
    Mr. Higgins?
    Mr. Higgins. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Higgins votes yes.
    Mr. Sessions?
    Mr. Sessions. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Sessions votes yes.
    Mr. Biggs?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. I am sorry. Mr. Biggs?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs?
    Mr. Biggs. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Biggs votes yes.
    Ms. Mace?
    Ms. Mace. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Mace votes yes.
    Mr. LaTurner?
    Mr. LaTurner. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. LaTurner votes yes.
    Mr. Fallon?
    Mr. Fallon. Aye.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fallon votes aye.
    Mr. Donalds?
    Mr. Donalds. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Donalds votes yes.
    Mr. Perry?
    Mr. Perry. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Perry votes yes.
    Mr. Timmons?
    Mr. Timmons. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Timmons votes yes.
    Mr. Burchett?
    Mr. Burchett. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burchett votes yes.
    Ms. Greene?
    Ms. Greene. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Greene votes yes.
    Mrs. McClain?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert?
    Ms. Boebert. Yes.
    The Clerk. Ms. Boebert votes yes.
    Mr. Fry?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry?
    Mr. Fry. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Fry votes yes.
    Mrs. Luna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna?
    Mrs. Luna. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mrs. Luna votes yes.
    Mr. Langworthy?
    Mr. Langworthy. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Langworthy votes yes.
    Mr. Burlison?
    Mr. Burlison. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Burlison votes yes.
    Mr. Waltz?
    Mr. Waltz. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Waltz votes yes.
    Mr. Raskin?
    Mr. Raskin. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Raskin votes no.
    Ms. Norton?
    Ms. Norton. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Norton votes no.
    Mr. Lynch?
    Mr. Lynch. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Lynch votes no.
    Mr. Connolly?
    Mr. Connolly. Nay.
    The Clerk. Mr. Connolly votes nay.
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi?
    Mr. Krishnamoorthi. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Krishnamoorthi votes no.
    Mr. Khanna?
    [No response.]
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume?
    Mr. Mfume. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Mfume votes no.
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?
    Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez votes no.
    Ms. Porter?
    Ms. Porter. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Porter votes no.
    Ms. Bush?
    Ms. Bush. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Bush votes no.
    Ms. Brown?
    Ms. Brown. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Brown votes no.
    Ms. Stansbury?
    Ms. Stansbury. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Stansbury votes no.
    Mr. Garcia?
    Mr. Garcia. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Garcia votes no.
    Mr. Frost?
    Mr. Frost. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Frost votes no.
    Ms. Lee?
    Ms. Lee. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Lee votes no.
    Mr. Casar?
    Mr. Casar. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Casar votes no.
    Ms. Crockett?
    Ms. Crockett. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Crockett votes no.
    Mr. Goldman?
    Mr. Goldman. No.
    Chairman Comer. The Committee will be in order.
    The Clerk. Mr. Goldman votes no.
    Mr. Moskowitz?
    Mr. Moskowitz. No.
    The Clerk. Mr. Moskowitz votes no.
    Ms. Tlaib?
    Ms. Tlaib. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Tlaib votes no.
    Ms. Pressley?
    Ms. Pressley. No.
    The Clerk. Ms. Pressley votes no.
    Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Yes.
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman votes yes.
    Chairman Comer. Have all Member been recorded?
    [No response.]
    Chairman Comer. Will the clerk please report the tally?
    The Clerk. Mr. Chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 24. The 
nays are 20.
    Chairman Comer. The motion passes.
    Pursuant to this vote, the Committee hereby adopts the 
Report recommending that the House of Representatives find 
Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for 
refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by this 
Committee. We will move the Report to the full House.
    Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the 
table.
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer. Pursuant to House Rule XI----
    Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chairman?
    Chairman Comer [continuing]. Clause 2, Committee Members 
shall have the right to file with the clerk of the Committee 
supplemental, additional, Minority, and dissenting views within 
2 days.
    Without objection, so ordered.
    Additionally, the staff is authorized to make necessary 
technical and conforming changes to the Report ordered reported 
today, subject to the approval of the Minority.
    Without objection, so ordered.
    If there is no further business before the Committee, 
without objection, the Committee stands adjourned.
    [Whereupon, at 11:10 p.m., the Committee was adjourned.]

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