[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           POLITICAL VENDETTA

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Speaker, with so few days left in this 
legislative session, this is a time when we could be talking about how 
to help create jobs, improve education, and lower the deficit. That is 
surely what the American people really care about.
  Instead, the greatest deliberative body in the world is quarreling 
about bringing a contempt charge to the floor of Congress against the 
Attorney General. It has never happened before. And let's be clear: 
it's not about finding the truth or creating reforms or finding out how 
gun walking started. We know how that started--it started under the 
Bush administration.
  What this is about is just the Republican leadership pursuing single-
mindedly a political vendetta, a political obsession. Like Ahab going 
after the great white whale, they are hoping to spill political blood.
  This is the type of gamesmanship and partisanship that understandably 
makes the American people lose faith in their Congress and in their 
leaders.
  Tomorrow, if it comes to the floor, vote ``no'' and let's get back to 
work on the real problems.

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