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When you see the destruction, you've also got to realize there's pain, there's pain behind a lot of this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
As we tried to march to that pool over six days, I was beaten, all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Yes, you've got people dying. Come on now, i think we have a real to do whatever is necessary to save lives.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This bill passed the House Oversight Committee and I call on the Senate and Senate Majority Mitch McConnell to take it up and consider the measures, and then I want the President to sign it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We must also stop the hateful incendiary comments, we got to do it. Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior. It only creates more division among us and severely limits our ability to work together for the common good. As a country, we finally must say enough is enough. That we are done with the hateful rhetoric. That we are done with the mass shootings. That we are done with white supremacists, domestic terrorist, who terrorizing in our country and fighting against everything America stands for.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
But the American people are begging us for more than thoughts and prayers, they want an answer, and guess what ? They want it now, because they know that this is a critical moment in our history.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
However, it is clear that it is not beneath President Trump. The president should be ashamed, we know that Baltimorians and other individuals across the country live in housing that is sub-standard and that if President Trump and President Trump [ Housing and Urban Development ] director... got serious about making that agency work for the benefit of Baltimorians and people in cities like Baltimore instead of trying to cut the budget for that agency every year, the change that could be made.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The Committee has obtained direct evidence that multiple high-level White House officials have been violating the Presidential Records Act by using personal email accounts, text messaging services, and even encrypted applications for official business - and not preserving those records in compliance with federal law.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Departments have refused to provide key unredacted documents that we need to understand the truth about why Secretary Ross really made this decision.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Trump administration's actions at the southern border are grotesque and dehumanizing, there seems to be open contempt for the rule of law and for basic human decency.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The committee needs to hear directly from the heads of these agencies as soon as possible in light of the almost daily reports of abuse and defiance.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our Republican colleagues are so busy trying to defend the Trump administration, even when there are 25 violations of federal law, that we are basically giving away our power.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We will do whatever we have to do, using every tool that we have available, as we would with any subpoena now, to get her in.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is not a conspiracy to silence White House counselor Kellyanne Conway or restrict White House counselor Kellyanne Conway First Amendment rights, this is an effort to enforce federal law.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can not have people disobeying the law, the President is not above the law. And neither is Ms. Conway above the law.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can not stand for this type of harm to the public or this interference with Congress' oversight responsibilities, we will take all appropriate actions to ensure that generic manufacturers are held accountable for misconduct.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The president's assertion does not change the fact that the attorney general and the secretary of commerce are sadly in contempt.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Trump Administration has demonstrated repeatedly that it is willing to disregard the Constitution, defy decades of clear precedent, and invent frivolous new arguments to delay and obstruct Congress' oversight authority, and Attorney General( William) Barr and Secretary( Wilbur) Ross are complicit in this cover-up, both Secretary Ross and Attorney Attorney General -LRB- William -RRB- Barr are refusing to comply with duly authorized subpoenas from Congress.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If they are not produced by tomorrow, we will be forced to move forward with holding Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross in contempt of Congress.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They don't mind investigating, but when they find that they have nothing to investigate because we can't get any information they say' what ? Why bother,' i don't know what The White House is trying to push or pressure us into.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My client believes in the transparency of accountability within our government. ... We remain confident in the US governing processes and we are hopeful all parties will set aside their personal interests and place the best interest of national security first.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Yesterday, President Trump declared to the entire country that President Trump would obstruct Congress and order all White House officials to defy lawful subpoenas from Congress, today, the Trump Administration went even further by expanding this policy to employees at federal agencies — even when the subpoenas are bipartisan and supported by Republican Members of Congress.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is simply no valid legal basis to interfere with this duly authorized subpoena from Congress, this complaint reads more like political talking points than a reasoned legal brief, and it contains a litany of inaccurate information.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This complaint reads more like political talking points than a reasoned legal brief, and it contains a litany of inaccurate information.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A lot of people keep asking about the question of impeachment ... We may very well come to that very soon, but right now let's make sure we understand what Mueller was doing, understand what Barr was doing, and see the report in an unredacted form and all of the underlying documents.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am not going to allow the president to be in jeopardy or his family.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are following-up on specific allegations regarding the President's actions based on corroborating documents obtained by the Committee, and we will continue our efforts to conduct credible, robust, and independent oversight.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our practice on this Committee is to give witnesses an opportunity to clarify their testimony, and that is what Mr. Cohen has done.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
House Judiciary Committee is bending over backwards to act in good faith, but White House has refused to produce a single piece of paper or a single witness to date, white House also withheld from House Judiciary Committee the policies that were in place during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration-which even General John Kelly admitted was plagued with problems.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm going to study the transcript first, that's No. 1. I'm going to see what the allegations are and then I'll go from there.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To date, The President has not produced a single document or scheduled a single interview, house Oversight Committee expects full compliance with House Oversight Committee requests as soon as possible, or it may become necessary to consider alternative means to compel compliance.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We got a lot of information that I think will be -- we may not look into it in House Oversight Committee, but one of the five or six committees will, and that's one of things that we have to discuss to figure out.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't have any knowledge of that. He said he wasn't( lobbying for a job) and I believe him, i mean, think about it. He could make a helluva lot more money, a helluva lot more money, outside White House than in White House. I mean, I don't know why you would want to do that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It appears he did, (But) that's not for me to say. That's based on what's already been found.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I need to study the transcripts and see what we have. Keep in mind I want to proceed very cautiously.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Tweets are not enough. We need real action and meaningful reform.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I promise you that we will hear from Mr. Cohen ... Whatever we have to do to get him here, we're going to do it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I promise you that we will hear from Mr. Cohen. ... Whatever we have to do to get him here, we're going to do it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is unacceptable for anyone -- including the President -- to try to bully or intimidate our witnesses, to try to get them not to testify, to try to scare or threaten their family members, or to try to interfere with Congress' search for the truth, house Oversight Committee has a long and bipartisan history of protecting the ability of witnesses to provide their information to us without even the appearance of intimidation or retaliation.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We will follow up as appropriate with Trump Organization to seek the information that we need.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The American people will have an opportunity to hear from Michael Cohen, Mr. Michael Cohen, and The American people representatives, that is representatives on the Republican side and the Democratic side, will have an opportunity to ask him questions, and I think The American people would see that it did matter, their votes did matter, and we opened it up for transparency.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I say to the president: No more talk, no more tweet. No more commotion, emotion and motion and no results.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Americans want government to help them. And this is something you can do to help all Americans.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I believe that what we do in this Congress over the next year or so will have impact for the next 50 to 100 years, we're going to cautiously go about with subpoenas. ... There would have to be something that has a compelling interest to the citizens of the United States, and would have to be something that comes under our jurisdiction. So there's certain criteria that has to be met. I do not expect to be issuing subpoenas -- even the 64 that we've asked for because there are so many things that are backed up. And we'll never get a chance to do everything.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I certainly would like to see him come in the month of January.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is unclear why Acting Attorney General Whitaker's financial disclosures have not already been made public, and I think that they should be made public immediately, the Department of Justice relied on an argument that Acting Attorney General Whitaker was Acting Attorney General Whitaker in order to have Acting Attorney General Whitaker serve in Acting Attorney General Whitaker acting position. Based on that same argument, I would expect that DOJ's position would be that Mr. Whitaker's financial disclosures should have already been made publicly available.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
When you've got integrity, which Rod Rosenstein has, you don't have to go figure out what a poll says, you just do what you know is right.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Mr. Chairman, we need you. Those children need you, i am talking directly to my Republican colleagues. We need you to stand up to President Trump. We need you to join us in telling him that we reject this mean policy.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We should be able to agree that we will not keep kids in child internment camps indefinitely and hidden away from public view. What country is that? This is the United States of America!.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is time for Congress to start conducting its own independent and credible oversight of the Trump administration rather than walling off the White House from scrutiny.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
President Trump was required by law to report that he 'funneled' money through Michael Cohen to reimburse a secret payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, but he concealed these payments, and we still do not know why.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
President Trump’s interference was a blatant effort to deny justice, and Shadey James Comey was right to document President Trump interference as President Trump interference happened -- in real time.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I honestly don't understand why the White House is covering up for Michael Flynn, i don't get it, after the President fired him for lying — they should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and it makes the American people think they have something to hide. There is a paper trail that the White House does not want our committee to follow it.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
These documents raise grave questions about why General Flynn concealed the payments he received from foreign sources after he was warned explicitly by the Pentagon.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is a paper trail that the WH does not want our committee to follow. But let it be known that we will follow it.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In a way he would be pleased to have seen the first African-American elected president, to have seen many doors opened for people like me and others who now have opportunities that would not have had them back then, but at the same time, when we see a guy like Bannon, who is, as far as I'm concerned, a white supremacist-type person, sitting in the White House, sitting in the White House, and I'm paying his salary, I think he would be very disappointed.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He knew that this was about saving people's lives and making it possible for people to keep more money in their pocketbooks, he was very aware of this prescription drug issue, almost every aspect of it.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It boiled down to saving people's lives and saving money.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer and assert my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If Republicans were truly concerned with transparency, strengthening FOIA, and preserving federal records, they would be attempting to recover Secretary Powell’s emails from AOL, but they have taken no steps to do so despite the fact that this period — including the run-up to the Iraq War — was critical to our nation’s history.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The Select Committee is poised to last for months - perhaps until right before the presidential election - and that appears to be the Republican plan.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I almost vomited when I heard you say something a moment ago ... You don't have to be a water treatment expert, a five year old could figure that out.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our ultimate goal must be to serve the interest of the children and families of Flint.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The outcome of the justice system may not be fast but hopefully it is fair, when you ask for justice, it's not just based on a verdict and a decision that you want. It's about a process that is fair.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This ridiculous resolution will demonstrate nothing but the Republican obsession with diving into investigative rabbit holes that waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while having absolutely no positive impact on a single American, calling this resolution a 'stunt' or a 'joke' would be insulting to stunts and jokes.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We still have been zeroed in on Hillary Clinton. There is absolutely no doubt about that, and it's very unfortunate.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
After 17 months, $ 4.7 million and counting of taxpayer money. . Trey Gowdy is now saying Trey Gowdy has another two dozen witnesses to interview.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Running investigations in a private, fact-centric way is unquestionably the right way to conduct a serious investigation. The pitfall, of course, is that commentators, and sometimes even Members of your own Conference, offer thoughts on matters on which they are not familiar, my team of investigators, drawn from the military, federal agencies and the congressional oversight and ethics committees, has worked hard, and in an above-board manner. It is unfortunate when claims are made by those who do not know what the committee has done, why it has done it, or the results of its work. We made a promise to the families about the integrity of this investigation, and no one on the majority side has forgotten it.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
When you look at our position, that is being in the minority and looking like we will be there for a while, every opportunity we get, I think we have to at least try to bring our votes together to affect change, our power will be sticking together.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is the identical approach taken by Chairman (Darrell) Issa when he served as chairman of the Oversight Committee -- forcing witnesses to appear in person to assert their Fifth Amendment rights just for a photo op, mr. Pagliano's testimony has nothing to do with the Benghazi attacks and everything to do with Republicans' insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential bid.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The bottom line is that the Inspector General found no evidence to back up Republican claims of political motivation, White House involvement, or intentional destruction of evidence, calls for Commissioner Koskinen to step down are nothing more than a manufactured Republican political crisis based on allegations that have already been debunked.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Chairman Gowdy has not contacted me, other Democratic members, or anyone on our staff about his proposal to release these documents, nor has he contacted the State Department to clarify why its production of Benghazi-related emails might have differences from Mr. Blumenthal's production of Libya-related documents, (Blumenthal's) deposition may further the Select Committee's inquest of Secretary Clinton, but it won't bring us any new information about the Benghazi attacks because the witness appears not to have any firsthand knowledge about them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There was no need for the Select Committee to send two U.S. Marshals to the home of Sidney Blumenthal to serve his wife with a subpoena, especially since the Committee never bothered to contact him first to ask him whether he would voluntarily come in. These heavy-handed, aggressive, and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S. Marshal service.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I understand what they're doing. They're going to throw everything including the spigot, the kitchen sink and the pipes at her, but again we need to let justice move forward, if the officers are innocent, they'll be found innocent.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Obviously, there are some who want to try it in the media, and Marilyn Mosby has made it very clear that she's not going to do that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is a new day in our city, let the wheels of justice begin to roll.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues, our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
[Body cameras] are a protection for the police and the public. When they know that someone's looking at what they're doing, it makes a difference.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is getting to be very painful, the silence was chilling. I do need to know a yes or no. Have we done things now that put us in a better position than where we were on the day of this event? And I don't want silence. It's not good enough.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A postal worker -- hello -- was able to fly through restrictive airspace.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'm hoping that people will listen, this is my neighborhood. I know a lot of these people.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We are very proud of what has happened here tonight. We are proud of our city.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I feel confident that the (Justice Department) will conduct thorough investigations and that the findings will help provide answers to the many questions surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and the policies and practices of the Baltimore City Police Department.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Any little thing can spark the situation to get out of hand and we cannot afford that, we're better than that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
She's not going to say anything she hasn't already said, she wants to come in and talk once. She'll talk about the emails.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Instead of targeting Secretary Clinton, we should honor the promises we made to the victims’ families to not make this investigation a political football and work to ensure that this never happens again.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Rather than drag out this political charade into 2016 and selectively leak portions of a closed-door interview, the Committee should schedule the public hearing, make her records public and re-focus its efforts on the attacks in Benghazi.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Rank-and-file officers are being stopped from doing what they are told to do. what's wrong with [conducting] a sobriety test? It's basic policing.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It has been public for several years that Secretary Clinton used her personal email account, apparently following the pattern of previous Secretaries of State, although Secretary Clinton has produced her emails to the State Department, it is unclear from press reports whether previous Secretaries have done the same.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Last month, the Committee received Secretary Clinton's emails relating to Benghazi, and now that we have them, I believe Chairman Gowdy should join with me to make them available to the American public so they can read their contents for themselves.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The chairman asked me back in September to inquire as to whether Secretary Clinton would testify, she immediately said she would and that she wanted to come in December, but if December did not work, she would come in January. She said I'll do it, period. The fact is she was very clear. She did not hesitate for one second.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is revealing that the Republicans -- yet again -- are leaking cherry-picked excerpts of documents to support their preconceived political narrative without allowing committee members to even see their conclusions or vote on them first, by leaking information to reporters on condition that they not disclose it to Democrats, Republicans are intentionally bypassing the normal congressional vetting process designed to distinguish fact from fiction.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They were irresponsible, incredibly disrespectful, and did not reflect reality.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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