[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10251-10252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   THERE HAS NOT BEEN FULL COMPLIANCE

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, despite what has been said here, it is the 
duty and obligation of this body to address a duly issued subpoena that 
has not been complied with. There has not been full compliance here. 
There has not been cooperation here. There has not been a willingness 
to share the information that is found within the Department of 
Justice.

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  We have a dead Border Patrol agent. We have more than 200 weapons 
that were used to kill people in Mexico. We have thousands of missing 
weapons. We have an Attorney General who said that this Fast and 
Furious program was fundamentally flawed. And yet here we stand today 
after doing more than just bending over backwards for more than a year, 
not having been given the documents that we need, as a body, to make a 
proper decision.
  This should be bipartisan in our quest to right a wrong. It's not 
about Eric Holder, but it is about the Department of Justice and it is 
about justice in the United States of America. I am proud of the fact 
that we are bringing up this contempt.
  It's sad that we got to this day. We have no other choice. But we, as 
a body, as an institution, as a separate branch of government, have a 
duty and an obligation, and we are fulfilling that here today.

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