[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE BUCK STOPS HERE

  (Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia. Well, we once had a political party known 
as the Know-Nothings. We now have a President who wants us to believe 
that he knows nothing. He wants us to believe that he knows nothing 
about who decided to blame the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on a 
video. He wants us to believe that he knew nothing about the IRS 
scandal until he read the same press reports that you and I have read. 
He wants us to believe that he knows nothing about the Department of 
Justice subpoenaing 2 months of the Associated Press' phone records.
  What has happened to the days in America when Democratic President 
Harry Truman proudly placed a placard on his desk that said: ``The buck 
stops here''? Perhaps, sadly, we have returned to the days where the 
question to the President of the United States ought to be: What did 
you know and when did you know it?

                          ____________________