[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14661]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             U.S. ATTORNEYS

  (Mr. PASCRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court, the judicial branch of 
our government, has ruled that the President of the United States is 
not above the law, even during time of war.
  The Attorney General's office within the executive branch of 
government is undermining the entire judicial system. Over 400 U.S. 
attorneys have been confirmed over the last 20 years. Three have been 
fired for political partisanship during that time.
  However, in the last 9 months, nine have been fired because they 
didn't bow to the partisan pressures of the executive branch of 
government. The Attorney General has allowed these nine U.S. attorneys 
names to be trashed in the public.
  This is worse than Watergate. There is reason to believe that a 
cover-up occurred, and that will be worse than the dirty deed. How did 
each of these get on the list in the first place? And out of the 
original 30, how did you get off the list? What did you have to do to 
be removed from that list, Mr. Attorney General?
  This is not the moral high ground. No one is above the law.

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