April 10, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3189 but it does show you that there were dents who pay $12,000 per person, the they can’t answer questions, and so Members then and I believe people now highest per capita federal taxes in the they make personal attacks. who recognize the unfairness of the un- country, to support the United States Then our Attorney General makes a equal status of D.C. residents I have of America; in the name of millions speech yesterday in which, because he discussed today and earlier this week. ever since 1801, when the District of Co- was busy helping, perhaps, terrorists or It became more difficult to make lumbia became the Capital, who have Marc Rich or things like that he didn’t progress as the years went by, because died in our wars without seeing the notice, because I am sure he wouldn’t most of my service in the Congress has benefits of voting representation in the be untruthful or tell a lie, but he been in the minority. Yet we are mak- House and Senate and without the full doesn’t even know how bad it gets in ing progress. and equal rights of other Americans Washington if you are a conservative, We were able to get the first statue who died alongside them, I ask this if you are George W. Bush, if you are representing the District of Columbia House to grant the residents of their John Ashcroft, if you are Alberto in the Capitol last year. The reason Nation’s Capital statehood. And if you Gonzales. that is important is that a statue, like fall short of statehood, at the very It got pretty brutal here, a lot worse those of the states, was denied us be- least, our residents are entitled to than anything our current Attorney cause we are not yet a State. We have equal representation and to equal rec- General has seen, and that is even now been able to break through that ognition, to equality under law with without having to go back and recall with what is surely a symbol of state- every other American citizen. the treatment that John Mitchell got. hood. f I would say, deservedly so, John Mitch- And at the ceremony with majority ell got the treatment he got. But for and minority leadership, unveiling the WAR ON BRATS any Attorney General to be so ignorant Douglass statue, Majority Leader REID (Mr. PETRI asked and was given per- of what has happened in very recent used the occasion, with great enthu- mission to address the House for 1 years of the maltreatment and siasm, to indicate that he was cospon- minute and to revise and extend his re- malignment and basically slander of soring the D.C. statehood bill. marks.) Republicans and a Republican Presi- The reason that is important, Mr. Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today dent and Republican Attorneys General Speaker, is that the Majority Leader, to express my concern that protec- is a bit breathtaking. like the Speaker of this House, cospon- tionism could one day lead to a ‘‘war There is a Web site that is Boycott sors very few bills. It says something on brats.’’ Liberalism. It has a lot of quotes from about the importance of correcting un- Bratwursts are delicious. They are people. Senator HARRY REID said: fairness to the District of Columbia enjoyed around the world. In Wis- President Bush is a liar. that Majority Leader REID not only has consin, we take our brats seriously. I don’t recall anyone saying that at become a cosponsor of our D.C. state- But nowhere more so than in the Sixth our hearings with our current Attorney hood bill, one of 17 Senators, but that District, which includes the Bratwurst General. he did so with great enthusiasm and in Capital of the World, Sheboygan, Wis- The Speaker of the U.S. House of a prominent public announcement. consin. Representatives, NANCY PELOSI, said: I am pleased that virtually the entire In 1970, the city of Sheboygan battled Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he’s Democratic Senate leadership has Bucyrus, Ohio, for the title and won. not a leader. sponsored our statehood bill. The battle was ended on August 14, I don’t recall anyone saying anything Mr. Speaker, Congress continues to 1970, when Judge John Bolgert issued of that magnitude of our current At- deny the American citizens who live in an official decision bestowing the title torney General or President, not in any its Nation’s Capital their most basic upon Sheboygan and barring all other of our hearings. rights. Today we have discussed how claimants from using it. Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of that is a violation of every American Unfortunately, this title could soon State and U.S. Senator, said: principle, and that it is even a viola- be under attack. There is growing con- We have a culture of corruption. We have tion of international law. cern that the European Union could cronyism. We have incompetence. Congress has failed to give D.C. resi- consider more geographic name restric- This actually raises a question about dents even some of the rights associ- tions on products including ‘‘kielbasa’’ pots and kettles calling each other ated with statehood, rights that they and Wisconsin’s own ‘‘bratwurst.’’ names. could give today or tomorrow even if This is, frankly, getting ridiculous. If Other quotes. John Edwards, a they were not prepared to grant us anything, we should be trademarking former U.S. Senator and Democratic statehood, the right to control our own the name ‘‘bratwurst,’’ not them. Vice Presidential nominee: local funds, funds we raise, funds we I am currently circulating a letter I would say if you live in the United States then turn over, at a cost of $12,000 per urging the U.S. trade representatives of America and you vote for George Bush, person, to support the government of to reject any attempt to include these you’ve lost your mind. the United States. provisions in further trade negotia- Senator AL FRANKEN said: Congress tyrannically overturns lo- tions. I strongly urge my colleagues to I think the President highjacked 9/11 and cally passed laws and keeps our local consider signing this letter. used it to go to war with Iraq in a way that laws from going into existence until f was very divisive. they have had an opportunity to look The late Ted Kennedy, as Senator, WAR ON CONSERVATIVES at them, except they don’t. They just said: leave this costly, delay-ridden require- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under No President in American history has done ment in place. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- more damage to our country and our secu- Congress continues to command our uary 3, 2013, the gentleman from Texas rity than George W. Bush. taxes to support the national govern- (Mr. GOHMERT) is recognized for 60 min- Amazingly, I am not aware of any ment at a higher per capita rate than utes as the designee of the majority U.S. President in one party reaching the rate paid by any other Americans leader. out more to a Senator in the other while denying D.C. residents voting Mr. GOHMERT. It is amazing some of party than did George W. Bush with representation when Congress passes the efforts made to rewrite history and Senator Ted Kennedy, and these are laws concerning those taxes or con- cast things in a light that doesn’t the kind of comments he got in re- cerning any other matter affecting our exist. So as some people in the admin- sponse. country. istration step up the continued Senator Hillary Clinton, former Sec- Therefore, Mr. Speaker, in the name trashing of conservatives in America— retary of State, said: of those who have died in the Nation’s we have already seen the assault on I predict to you that this administration wars; in the name of the living vet- conservative groups by the IRS, that will go down in history as one of the worst erans of our wars who are among the does need a special prosecutor, clear- that has ever governed our country. 650,000 residents of the District of Co- ly—the assault on people with whom We are just talking about there has lumbia today; in the name of D.C. resi- some in the administration disagree, never been an Attorney General or

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Lawyers were Mexicans, each one of them a life She also said: given 9,600 or so transcripts or sum- worth saving, those lives were taken by I have been absolutely amazed, even maries of transcripts. guns that this Justice Department shocked, at the combination of arrogance And Members of Congress are told, as forced into the hands of criminals, peo- and incompetence that marks this particular I was in a letter this year in response ple that should not have had them. So administration. to my years of trying to get these doc- we would like to know more informa- We are just helping those who have uments that the Justice Department tion about how this all came about. short memories or maybe were busy provided to terrorists, I get a response, And it is not good enough to say, helping terrorists or others get pardons basically, saying, hey, here is a Web hey, the Bush Justice Department had and didn’t notice these kind of state- site, you can look up some exhibits a scheme where they had devices, they ments being made. that were admitted in evidence. And had guns that they were going to Former Senator and former Vice here is a public access Web site. track, just like in drug sales, where President Al Gore said: I have been asking for 3 years, just you have a controlled sale so you can While President Bush likes to project an give us the documents Justice gave to try to arrest the bad guys and, because image of strength and courage, the real the terrorists. If somebody wants to of a problem, they got away from truth is that, in the presence of his large fi- try to make something of that, that is them. nancial contributors, he is a moral coward. their problem. But the Constitution That is a different thing entirely, of Speaker of the House NANCY PELOSI provides that Congress has oversight intentionally letting guns get away to said: because that is the only way we know criminals who killed hundreds of Mexi- cans, and at least one American, Brian Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he what to fund and what not to fund. is not a leader. He is a person who has no That is part of article I, section 8 of Terry, and perhaps more. judgment, no experience, and no knowledge the Constitution. It would be nice if we could get to the of the subjects that he has to decide upon. So, to be denied documents for 3 bottom of that. Wherever there are big years, as I have been, with little coy, problems in our government, we need b 1315 useless answers, and then allegations to know what they are so we can Quotes go on and on, pages of quotes. of ulterior motivations, when I want to defund them, or at least bring about But Democratic Senator from Wash- protect America—and I travel around accountability, just as my Democratic ington, PATTY MURRAY, said, ‘‘He’s’’— the world, and I hear moderate Muslim friends in the Senate repeatedly said, talking about Osama Bin Laden—‘‘been friends, leaders in other countries say, except not so kindly, about the Bush out in these countries for decades why are you not helping us against rad- administration and John Ashcroft and building schools, building roads, build- ical Islam anymore? You are helping Alberto Gonzales. And there were some things I agreed ing infrastructure, building daycare fa- the bad guys. with Senator SCHUMER on in the cilities, building health care facilities, I want to find out what the docu- Gonzales Justice Department. It was and these people are extremely grate- mentation was and is that the Justice outrageous that they allowed so many ful. We haven’t done that.’’ Department has. And they know how National Security Letters to go out Former Speaker of the House, NANCY to reduce it to disk and provide it to without proper basis. I was outraged PELOSI said, ‘‘I believe that the Presi- others. I am told they have done that dent’s leadership and the actions taken about that. to others in the Justice Department, so In fact, if someone cares to check the in Iraq’’—talking about President do that for Congress. RECORD, they can see the way I went Bush—‘‘demonstrate an incompetence At one point I was told, well, there after the Bush FBI Director, because I in terms of knowledge, judgment, and are classification issues. You gave believed then and still believe he did experience in making the decisions them to terrorists, your Department some serious damage to the FBI during that would have been necessary to did, so it shouldn’t be a real classifica- the Bush administration. truly accomplish the mission without tion problem to give them to Members The only difference is, I never heard the deaths to our troops and the cost to of Congress. him run out and give a speech whining our taxpayers.’’ So for those who wonder about the about how he was mistreated as he She also made this statement, former treatment of an Attorney General com- came before me for questioning. He Speaker of the House, NANCY PELOSI, ing for an oversight hearing, we have didn’t do that. And he actually tried to talking about President Bush: ‘‘I be- already seen that the Justice Depart- take actions to correct the problems lieve that the President’s leadership ment repeatedly refused to provide the that I got all over him about. and the actions taken in Iraq dem- documentation of what happened in Another difference is, he was a Re- onstrate an incompetence in terms of Fast and Furious. publican President’s FBI Director. But knowledge, judgment, experience in And if someone wants to talk about I didn’t care what his party was. I making the decisions that would have unprecedented treatment, let’s look at didn’t care who he was. I thought he been necessary to truly accomplish the the facts, just the little ones we know was hurting the FBI, and I sounded off. mission without the deaths to our that haven’t been covered up by this And I was shocked that I did not have troops and the cost to our taxpayers,’’ administration, that haven’t been kept more friends on the Democratic side of basically the same thing again. secreted by this administration. the aisle join me in going after the Re- But, there are some of us that could Thank God, one of the gun store own- publican-appointed FBI Director. care less about someone’s party or ers who was being pressured by the And of course, once he held over and someone’s race or someone’s gender, Justice Department to sell to the peo- became the FBI Director for this ad- someone’s age. We don’t care. We care ple he knew he should not sell to, he ministration, the other side of the aisle about whether you are helping or hurt- recorded some of the conversations. If got even more kind in its questioning. ing our country if you are in a position he had not, you can’t help but believe But one of us—I certainly stayed con- to do one or the other. they would have turned on him bigger sistent. I would also direct my friends who than they did, because once they found But there are many problems in this would care to do research and get the out he had tapes of the conversations, Justice Department that are very truth before they go accusing, igno- they knew they couldn’t completely clear. There is an article from 2011, Au- rantly, someone who has the gall to blame him, because he was saying, in gust 26, by Christian Adams, a guy that question refusal to turn over docu- essence, I shouldn’t be selling to these should know. He was in the Justice De- ments that were provided by the Jus- people. But he was coerced into selling. partment and had a case ready for

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They can go intimi- ica when, in May of 2013, as this article age, whenever anybody attacked date others at other polling places, and points out from Breitbart: them—he never resorted to name-call- there were no legal actions that were On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric ing and, in fact, would often try to really pursued to provide any teeth. Holder testified in front of the House Judici- point out, actually, they have the right But Christian Adams has an article ary Committee about the recent scandals plaguing the Obama administration. Unfor- to their opinion. entitled ‘‘The Politicized Hiring of Eric tunately, the committee and America did Nowadays, it is a different matter. If Holder’s Compliance Section.’’ He says not learn very much because Holder appar- someone is concerned that your depart- every single new attorney hired has a ently does not know much about what hap- ment or their department would pro- history thick with left-wing activism. pens in Washington, D.C. vide discovery documents to convicted And then he goes through and talks The AP claims the Department of Justice terrorists that they are refusing to pro- about it in a very long article, very violated their constitutional rights when vide to Congress, that is not an issue of well-documented. they obtained 2 months of phone records of anything other than just not doing reporters. When asked about the scandal, My friend across the building, TED Holder claimed ignorance and that he was what the law requires in the way of CRUZ, Senator CRUZ, invoked Water- not part of the decisionmaking process. oversight. gate in blasting DOJ’s probe of the IRS He did defend the effort to subvert the There is so much going on in this scandal. This was March 20, this year, press, saying the DOJ wanted to find who country that needs our attention, and this article from The Blaze by Fred leaked information to the AP about a CIA one of them is the Department of Jus- Lucas. operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb- tice. Is it the Department of Justice? Is Senator CRUZ said the investigator is ing plot around the anniversary of Osama it the Department of ‘‘just us’’? a partisan Democrat who has donated bin Laden’s death. There is an article from Red State by over $6,000 to President Obama and On Tuesday, Holder recused himself from the investigation into the AP scandal and Candice Lanier, June 26, 2013, where Democratic causes. Just as nobody told the committee it was because he had the she entitles the article, ‘‘Sixteen Scan- would trust John Mitchell to inves- leaked information. He could not give the dals: The Legacy of Eric Holder,’’ and tigate Richard Nixon, nobody should exact date he recused himself, and he never then she goes through and cites 16 rea- trust a partisan Obama donor to inves- put it in writing. It took quite awhile for sons we should be very concerned about tigate the IRS’ political targeting of him to receive confirmation it was Deputy this Justice Department. One of them President Obama’s enemies. Attorney General James Cole who signed the quotes Discover the Networks. But he makes a good point. John subpoena for the AP phone records. She says: Mitchell deserved the criticism he got, There are all kinds of reasons to be Holder also took a leadership role with the but no Attorney General since John concerned about what is going on. Student Afro-American Society, which at Mitchell has the truthful history in There are plenty of stories out there. one point demanded that the school’s aban- their favor to stand up and say, no At- Oh, gee, how about the speech that doned ROTC office be renamed the ‘‘Malcolm torney General has ever been treated my friend across the, aisle KEITH ELLI- X Lounge’’—‘‘in honor of a man who recog- worse than I have. SON of Minnesota, gave where, as re- nized the importance of territory as a basis You just have to go back to Alberto ported here from the Minneapolis Star for nationhood. In 1970, Holder was a partici- pant in a 5-day occupation of that office. Tribune, Mr. ELLISON said, talking Gonzales. Again, I think he deserved And, according to some accounts, the occu- some of the criticism he got, especially about comparing September 11: piers were armed. In addition, Holder and on the National Security Letter issue, It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of SAAS also occupied the office of Henry Cole- and I am right there thinking it was a reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was man, Dean of Freshmen, until their demands disaster, and it shouldn’t have been al- burned, they blamed the communists for it, were met. lowed to happen, and that people need- and it put the leader of that country—Hit- It would appear the SAAS was an advocate ler—in a position where he could basically ed to be held accountable, which is why of the Black Panthers because, in March have authority to do whatever he wanted. 1970, the SAAS released a statement sup- I called the White House after it came The fact is that I am not saying September porting the Black Panthers who were to light that a report had been on the 11 was a U.S. plan or anything like that be- charged with plotting to blow up a police Attorney General’s desk before he tes- cause, you know, that’s how they put you in station, department stores, railroad tracks, tified before the Senate that there were the nutball box or dismiss you. and the New York Botanical Gardens. no known abuses of the National Secu- But he went on, basically comparing It references the discriminatory hir- rity Letters. September 11 to Hitler’s Reichstag fire, ing practices in the Department of Jus- I told the White House, this is inde- which was set and then blamed on the tice. This article points out: fensible. This isn’t right. We can’t de- communists. In June 2008, Holder admitted to the Amer- fend this. From CNN, a report on this, Keith ican Constitution Society, an organization And I wish colleagues across the Oppenheimer had stated: started as a liberal counterweight to the aisle, when they found similar abuses, Well, first of all, Wolf, some of the themes Federalist Society, that the Justice Depart- problems, fault, would not let party that Keith Ellison is talking about are ment was ‘‘going to be looking for people politics or other divisive issues stand themes that he has been sounding off for a who share our values.’’ in the way of doing what is right. while. Then it references Fort Hood and the There are transcripts of Senators And then Oppenheimer said: fact that: going after Attorney General Gonzales, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, quoting Following the Fort Hood attack on Novem- Attorney General Ashcroft, or even Ellison at the forum, is saying this about the ber 5, 2009, not one of the postattack reports going back to John Mitchell. This At- Vice President: ‘‘It is beneath his dignity in issued by the Department of Justice men- torney General, compared to them, order for him to answer any question from tioned Nidal Hasan’s Islamist ideology. doesn’t have a lot to complain about. the citizens of the United States. That is the It talks further about that, and then And one thing is interesting. You very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and dictatorship.’’ it talks about the AP surveillance, the know, when I was a freshman, the Bush In response to a question as to whether way it went after the Associated Press administration was in power. We had a Ellison supports a new investigation of the and cowed them. lot of trouble getting documents from causes of September 11, Ellison made a com- Number four, the Department of Jus- the Bush administration. The dif- parison to the Reichstag fire in Berlin that tice secretly targets Fox News reporter ference between that one and this one: Adolf Hitler used to consolidate power. James Rosen. they would eventually get us the docu- And then he quoted my friend across There were issues of credibility in ments. the aisle, with what I just mentioned. comparing our Attorney General’s tes- The difference here is they have been So anyway, there are all kinds of ac- timony, saying he didn’t know of any- there 5 years and they still will not cusations. I thought both George H.W. one ever being prosecuted, in essence,

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Filed pleadings— award, won moot court. and fugitive oil broker who illegally his department filed pleadings, and he Fred came in behind me and set the bought oil from Iran. made statements about how bad the place on fire, figuratively speaking, Anyway, President Clinton signed law was, and he had not even read it. with how well he did and the things he the pardon, later crediting Holden’s I thought my friend from Texas, TED accomplished. recommendation as one of the factors POE, a former judge, had asked one of 1345 that had convinced him to issue the the stupidest questions I had ever b pardon. heard in our Judiciary Committee But he went to work for President Number six was the Weather Under- hearing when he asked: Had you read George H. W. Bush, and in 1990, in De- ground pardon. that law before you filed that suit? cember, I begged Fred to come back to Holder, as Deputy Attorney General, ‘‘was And the answer was no. I couldn’t be- east Texas where he grew up in San the gatekeeper for presidential pardons.’’ lieve that no lawyer would file a suit Augustine and that there were a lot of Two of the recipients of Holder’s pardons declaring a law unconstitutional and us that loved him and would get him were former Weather Underground members he hadn’t even read it. elected to Congress so we could come Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. Twelve, New Black Panther intimida- back up here to Washington and set Number seven—and I am not reading tion. things right. off all the information about these— Thirteen, opposition to voter ID And the thing I am still furious at but seven was: laws—and by the way, we have evi- Fred about is, if Fred had taken the en- Holder’s DOJ threatens free speech. The dence—you have places where photo couragement to heart and come back American Muslim Advisory Council of Ten- IDs have been required, and there was and run for Congress, we could have nessee sponsored an event on June 4, called actually an increase in minority vot- gotten him elected. And if we had done ‘‘Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society.’’ The main speakers for the event were DOJ ing. that, I could have been about a normal official Bill Killian, who is the U.S. attorney Fourteen, Fast and Furious, that we life and not had to be here in Congress. for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and can’t get to the bottom of because they With that, I yield back the balance of FBI Special Agent of the Knoxville Division, continue to secrete information about my time. Kenneth Moore. What is troubling about the the department’s involvement and f event is that Killian addressed how social what they did. media posts and documents deemed inflam- Fifteen, purges references to radical ADJOURNMENT matory toward Muslims can be considered a Islam, and we know about the purging Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, pursu- violation of civil rights laws. of FBI training documents so that we ant to Senate Concurrent Resolution He went on and he quoted the law, don’t offend people that want to de- 35, 113th Congress, I move that the talking about how anybody critical of stroy our way of life and us. House do now adjourn. Islam could be violating the law. He Sixteen, about the Islamic outreach, The motion was agreed to; accord- quotes the law: when I was grilling FBI Director ingly (at 1 o’clock and 45 minutes If two or more persons conspire to injure, Mueller about not even pursuing ade- p.m.), the House adjourned until Mon- oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person quately the information about day, April 28, 2014, at 2 p.m. in any State, territory, commonwealth, pos- Tsarnaev being radicalized, I said: you session, or district in the free exercise or en- f joyment of any right or privilege secured to didn’t even go to the Muslim mosque in him by the Constitution or laws of the Boston to ask about their EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, United States, they shall be fined under this radicalization. ETC. title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, He said: oh, yes, we did go to the Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive or both. mosque—and then muttered ‘‘in the communications were taken from the Talk about a chilling effect. outreach program.’’ They never went Speaker’s table and referred as follows: Number eight, hostility towards con- to talk to anybody that might know 5366. A letter from the Associate Adminis- servatives. At an American Constitu- whether Tsarnaev had been radicalized. trator, Department of Agriculture, transmit- tion Society gathering in 2004, Holder Then The New York Times has a ting the Department’s final rule — Peanut made the following comments—and story blaming the Russians. The Rus- Promotion, Research, and Information these are all quotes: sians and our own intelligence commu- Order; Amendment to Primary Peanut-Pro- Conservatives have been defenders of the nity know anytime you give a heads-up ducing States and Adjustment of Member- status quo, afraid of the future, and content to another country about information ship [Document Number: AMS-FV-13-0042] to allow to continue to exist all but the most that may be helpful to them, you may received April 7, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. blatant inequalities. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- end up giving away how intelligence is culture. Conservatives have ‘‘made a mockery of obtained. the rule of law.’’ 5367. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- Conservatives are ‘‘breathtaking’’ in their So it was wonderful that, twice, Rus- retary, Department of Defense, transmitting ‘‘arrogance,’’ which manifests itself in such sia gave us a heads-up, and instead, we authorization of Colonel Robert G. Armfield things as ‘‘attacks on abortion rights,’’ ‘‘en- go to the mosque that Tsarnaev at- and Colonel Christopher M. Short to wear ergy policies that are as shortsighted as they tends, with our outreach program from the authorized insignia of the brigadier gen- are ineffective,’’ and ‘‘tax cuts that dis- the FBI, instead of to investigate how eral; to the Committee on Armed Services. proportionately favor those who are well off radicalized this young man had become 5368. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- and perpetuate many of the inequities in our retary, Department of Defense, transmitting and the damage and the death and a letter on the approved retirement of Lieu- nation.’’ mayhem he was about to cause. The hallmarks of the ‘‘conservative agen- tenant General Stanley T. Kresge, United da’’ include ‘‘social division, mindless tax If someone wants to say there is an- States Air Force, and his advancement on cutting, and a defense posture that does not other motive for being critical, well, the retired list in the grade of general; to the really make us safer.’’ they are living in their own little Committee on Armed Services. Anyway, he has got quite a few world. 5369. A letter from the Chairman, Nuclear If somebody wants to bring up race, Weapons Counsel, transmitting certification quotes like that. of amounts requested for the national Nu- But number nine, opposition to Sec- Mr. Speaker, for the record, let me just say, there is one African American I clear Security Administration in the Presi- ond Amendment rights: dent’s Budget for FY 2015; to the Committee In 2008, Eric Holder claimed that the Sec- am still furious with. His name is Fred on Armed Services. ond Amendment does not protect an individ- McClure. He was the president of the 5370. A letter from the Chair, Board of Gov- ual’s right to keep and bear arms, but only State of Texas Future Farmers of ernors of the Federal Reserve System, trans- applied to government militias. America. He was the student body mitting the Board’s semiannual Monetary

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