[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 6, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           AMERICA NOW KNOWS

  (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, America now knows the truth. The Democratic 
Party hired the Perkins Law Firm. The Perkins Law Firm hired the Fusion 
GPS company. Fusion GPS needed two things: fake dirt on Donald Trump, 
and they needed a way to inject that fake dirt into the bloodstream of 
our intelligence community. So they hired Christopher Steele. And then 
they went and hired Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice Department 
official Bruce Ohr.
  Now, Bruce Ohr's portfolio included counternarcotics and antidrug 
work. But all of a sudden, after his wife gets hired from the money 
that you can trace back to the Democratic Party, Bruce Ohr starts 
taking counterintelligence meetings, meeting with Glenn Simpson and 
Christopher Steele, before and after the election.
  What should enrage the American people is the notion that cash at a 
political party could ever be convertible to a warrant to spy on 
political enemies in the United States of America.
  That is what we are fighting against. That is what is at issue. That 
is why we are going to do everything we can to hold the bad actors 
accountable and then institute reforms so that this type of thing never 
happens again.

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