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




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                     WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TRUTH?

  (Mr. GOWDY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GOWDY. Mr. Speaker, my question is simply this: What percentage 
of the truth do you want? When we're asked to negotiate; when the 
Attorney General comes and asks us for an extraordinary accommodation, 
whatever that means; when we're asked to compromise; my question for 
our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, is this: 
What percentage of the truth will you settle for? If you have ever sat 
on the other side of the table from parents who have lost a loved one, 
is 50 percent enough? Is that enough of the documents? Seventy-five 
percent? A third?
  The truth, the whole truth, so help me God--that is what we ask 
witnesses to do, jurors to do, and that's not too much for us to ask 
for the Attorney General of the United States of America to do.

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