[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12850]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ATTORNEY GENERAL MISLEADS CONGRESS

  (Mr. GOSAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address Attorney General 
Holder misleading Congress with deceptive testimony. If I or any other 
ordinary citizen did what the Attorney General did, we would be thrown 
in jail for perjury. In front of the House Judiciary Committee on May 
15, Holder said he knew nothing of the targeting of journalist James 
Rosen, yet Holder himself signed the subpoena for Mr. Rosen's records.
  Does the Attorney General suffer from Sergeant Schultz syndrome--
where he hears nothing, sees nothing, and knows nothing? How convenient 
for Mr. Holder--but at what cost to our Constitution?
  We are a Nation of laws, but the Attorney General has created an 
atmosphere of lawlessness in America. Nobody is above the law. He must 
be held accountable.
  As Supreme Court Justice Brandeis said:

       In a government of laws, the existence of the government 
     will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law 
     scrupulously. If government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds 
     contempt for the law. It invites every man to become a law 
     unto himself. It invites anarchy.

  I ask you: Has the Attorney General invited anarchy? I will continue 
to make my case here in the people's House, at the people's pulpit. I 
will be back.

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