[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14079]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE LACKS INFORMATION FROM THE SPEAKER OF THE 
                                 HOUSE

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I was listening to the colloquy this 
evening as we were talking about what next week might bring in terms of 
the business. And as the majority leader and the minority whip were 
going through the process, the question that was asked was: Is the 
intelligence committee or was the intelligence committee assumed to be 
moving forward on investigating the allegations that the Speaker has 
made that the CIA, over a long period of time, consistently lied to 
Congress?
  I can inform the Members that now that process and that investigation 
is not going on because one of the things that has not happened is that 
the Speaker of the House has not outlined or directed the committee as 
to where she believes she was lied to over this period of time. And she 
has presented no evidence that backs up the claims that she has made.
  If that information is provided to the committee as to the direction 
and to the evidence that this action actually took place by the CIA, I 
think the committee hopefully would be ready to move forward. But at 
this point in time, we wouldn't know what to take a look at, and we 
wouldn't know what direction to move in.

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