[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19096]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER MUST RESIGN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. Boustany) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Mr. Speaker, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder must 
resign immediately. After months of evading tough questions and giving 
unclear answers about Operation Fast and Furious, it now appears the 
Justice Department's top official has contradicted his own testimony 
given before Congress.
  Under Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, and 
Firearms allowed ``straw'' purchasers to buy at least 1,400 weapons, 
despite the fact it knew that these weapons would likely end up in the 
hands of violent Mexican drug cartels. The ATF lost track of the guns 
after they were sold to criminals. Since then, many have been used in 
hundreds of crimes on both sides of the border, including the murders 
of a Border Patrol agent in Arizona and an immigration officer at the 
U.S. embassy in Mexico City.
  Why did the Attorney General allow for the transfer of guns across 
the border without working in conjunction with Mexican authorities when 
he knew the ATF was unable to trace them? That's a very important 
question that must be answered. This botched program should never have 
been authorized in the first place. Attorney General Holder should 
resign over his failure and his evasive and contradictory testimony to 
the United States Congress.

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