[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 23, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H6663]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST ERIC HOLDER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Olson) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, last November, I filed Articles of 
Impeachment against our Attorney General, Eric Holder. This was a 
serious action. I am not happy that I had to do it.
  The trust of the American people in their government is at an alltime 
low. They wonder: Where is the Constitution? Is it still law? Is it 
alive?
  It is still law. It is still alive. I took a sacred oath to defend 
it. All of my colleagues took that same oath. Mr. Holder took that 
oath. Sadly, he has broken that oath many times.
  He has a long record of enforcing laws he likes and ignoring laws he 
doesn't like. The oath he took doesn't give him that choice. He is the 
number one law enforcement official in America.
  We are having an immigration crisis on our border with Mexico. Kids 
are coming across in record numbers. Next year, our Border Patrol 
thinks that 150,000 kids will cross illegally. That is roughly the same 
number of Allied Forces that invaded Normandy on D-day.
  We have laws on the books to stop this crisis, and yet Mr. Holder 
won't enforce those laws. Instead, he made up new rules that refuse to 
deport people who have come here illegally. He chose to break our laws. 
He chose to break his oath.
  The Internal Revenue Service has been using our Tax Code to harass 
Americans because their political views oppose the administration's. 
The watchdog over the IRS begged Mr. Holder to investigate because 
crimes may have been committed within the IRS by senior officials. Mr. 
Holder chose not to investigate the IRS. He chose politics over our 
laws. He chose to break his oath.
  Finally, Mr. Holder, under oath to tell the truth, told Congress that 
he had no involvement in an operation against a reporter working for a 
network Mr. Holder didn't like, yet Mr. Holder's signature was on the 
paper approving that operation. He chose to break our laws. He chose to 
break his oath.
  Hoping to remind Mr. Holder about his oath and his duty to enforce 
all of our laws, Congress held Mr. Holder in contempt in June of 2012. 
He made history, with two bipartisan votes holding him in contempt of 
Congress. Sadly, 2 years later, Mr. Holder continues to break his oath.
  The only weapon Congress has for Federal officials who break their 
oath and our law is impeachment. I have 28 cosponsors of my resolution 
to impeach Mr. Holder. I ask my colleagues to remember that we are a 
Nation of laws.
  Show the American people that our Constitution is alive and well--
cosponsor H. Res. 411, Articles of Impeachment against Eric Holder.

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