[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 81 (Monday, May 15, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2333]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE DURHAM REPORT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, today the Durham report finally came out. 
As suspected, the FBI and the DOJ acted vastly improperly with raw and 
uncorroborated so-called evidence that they used to hound President 
Trump for well over 2 years and try to influence the 2016 election as 
well as make the administration untenable following that.
  So who is going to go to jail for this?
  It is hard to tell. It is pretty difficult to prosecute these sorts 
of things when the insiders at the Department of Justice and FBI are 
going to be trying to make sure it doesn't happen.
  So what do we do to put, at least, the confidence of the American 
people back into the upper echelons of the Department of Justice and 
the FBI so that we don't have to think that they are going to be doing 
this sort of thing to anybody they disagree with politically on top of 
what we just saw?
  Indeed, how do we regain trust?
  It has been blown up in the name of influencing an election in 2016 
and harming the Trump administration.

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