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




                       A FAST AND FURIOUS ATTACK

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, tomorrow the House is intending to vote on 
the contempt of our outstanding Attorney General, Eric Holder. It's 
because the Republicans have been obsessed with Fast and Furious.
  Fast and Furious was a plan that went awry. It was started by the 
Bush administration, and it went awry. It was fatally flawed, and it 
resulted in the tragic death of a border agent. But nothing in this 
resolution will get to the bottom of it, and nothing will change it.
  The fact is Fast and Furious is misnamed. Fast and furious is what 
the Republicans--starting with Senator Mitch McConnell--have been doing 
since President Obama was elected. In a fast and furious way they've 
tried to do everything they can to taint the President of the United 
States and to taint anybody associated with him. That's what they are 
doing with Eric Holder. They want to blemish him and blemish the 
President.
  Their fast and furious attack on the health care bill, which will 
save lives in America, and on this administration, is shameless. We 
should be creating jobs, helping the middle class, and putting America 
on the road to recovery. Instead, what we've been doing is a fast and 
furious attack on this administration.

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