[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 113 (Wednesday, July 13, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4823-H4824]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           THE STANDARD OF LAW DOES NOT APPLY TO THE CLINTONS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Babin) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, our Nation's top law enforcement officials 
took a very dangerous turn last week when they essentially rewrote the 
law for the well-connected and privileged in America. This should be 
deeply troubling to all ordinary Americans, both on the left and on the 
right.
  For those of us who work hard every day, play by the rules, and live 
by the law, when we cross the line, it is the law that holds us 
accountable. But that standard of law does not seem to apply to the 
Clintons.
  John Adams warned during the formation of our Constitution that we 
must be a nation of laws, not a nation of men. Undermining this 
founding principle for the privileged not only demonstrates poor 
judgment, it further erodes our trust in the institutions of 
government.
  So it is left for us to now ask whether what we have come to is a 
nation of laws, or is it a government of the rich and powerful?
  Do we have a Department of Justice or a department of ``just us''?
  FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress to the many laws 
that former Secretary of State Clinton

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broke, acknowledging ``extreme carelessness'' while denying ``gross 
negligence,'' which by definition are one and the same.
  Then, incredibly, Mr. Comey said that there was no need for 
prosecution. Therefore, the choice not to apply the law equally to 
Hillary Clinton is not only a major blow to public confidence and the 
rule of law and equal treatment under the law, it also suggests that 
the rule of law has become nothing more than a word game. It confirms 
everything that we hate about the current state of politics in our 
country.
  The FBI basically just wasted millions of dollars to confirm that 
everything Secretary Clinton has been telling the American people is 
nothing but a bunch of lies, and it doesn't matter.
  However, it has mattered greatly to far less powerful Americans in 
similar circumstances who have had their careers and their lives 
destroyed. Public servants and military servicemembers who are not in 
positions to hold private meetings with the Attorney General, as Mrs. 
Clinton's husband did just days before this decision, have been jailed, 
fined, and lost their jobs and their security clearances.
  We may never know just how much damage was caused by Clinton's 
callous disregard for the law and our national security secrets. Were 
informants killed? Were they lost or compromised due to her negligence?
  Do foreign intelligence services now retain tens of thousands of 
emails from her private, unsecured servers that can now be used against 
the United States or against her to the detriment of the United States 
of America?
  We have an absolute duty to find out.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind Members to refrain 
from engaging in personalities toward a presumptive nominee for the 
Office of President.

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