[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HOLDING ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER ACCOUNTABLE

  (Mr. GOSAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address truly disturbing 
comments President Obama made during his hour-long speech on July 24. 
He mentioned ``an endless parade of distractions and phony scandals,'' 
as if to belittle the significance of these stories. Well, there's 
nothing phony about the deaths linked to Attorney General Holder's 
Operation Fast and Furious.
  Beside me is a photo of blood running through the streets of Mexico, 
the blood of high school students murdered by guns Holder's DOJ sold to 
Mexican drug cartels. This massacre is far from phony, Mr. President. 
Brian Terry, the Border Patrol agent murdered by violent criminals whom 
Holder's DOJ gave the guns to, is definitely not phony.
  These deaths are real.
  What else is real? Attorney General Holder's violation of the law, 
the ramifications of which are far from phony. As Supreme Court Justice 
Brandeis said:

       In a government of laws, the existence of the government 
     will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law 
     scrupulously. If government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds 
     contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto 
     himself. It invites anarchy.

  I ask you, has the Attorney General invited anarchy?
  I will continue to make my case here in the people's House, at the 
people's pulpit. I will be back.

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