H5702 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE August 2, 2012 

Well, we didn’t know it at the time; 

but since then, more recently, in the 

last couple of months, we’ve had the 

Attorney General testify before our 

committee that there are political aspects to justice, from his standpoint, 

which fly in the face of everything that 

any good law school, any legitimate 

law school has ever taught its law students. 

Justice is supposed to be blind. 

That’s why the statue that depicts justice, holding the scales of justice, is 

blinded, is wearing a blindfold. Because 

justice is blind if it’s real justice. And 

if justice is not blind, if we’re looking 

to who it is and politically what the 

consequences will be, it’s not justice. 

There are no political aspects to justice—or it’s not true justice. And I’m 

afraid that’s where we’ve gotten to in 

this so-called Justice Department. 

So we had the Attorney General say, 

Oh, no, no, no. There is no political involvement. In fact, I said to my friend 

TRENT FRANKS, Gee, in fact, the U.S. 

Attorney handling that—I believe it 

was quoted in a newspaper—I believe it 

was the Dallas News—he said there was 

no politics involved in those dismissals 

because there was just no case there. 

There was no evidence to support it. 

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Well, I happened to have read that 

Dallas Morning News report, and I happen to have read the quotes from that 

acting U.S. Attorney. And yes, he did 

say it was local; politics weren’t involved. But that is not what he said. He 

says no, the evidence wasn’t there, 

which is entirely different since he was 

not under penalty of potential jail 

when he spoke to a reporter, but he was 

under potential penalty of jail. If you 

ever commit a fraud upon a court by 

not giving all of the information or 

misrepresenting to a judge or tricking 

a judge by not being truthful, you can 

be looking at jail time. Lawyers before 

me knew that. I didn’t care about politics, but I cared about truth. 

I cared about it in the Bush administration. So when we found out there 

were abuses of the National Security 

Letter, I was furious. And I grilled the 

Bush director of the FBI at that time. 

I was surprised there weren’t more 

Democrats that were nearly as outraged as I was because that was so offensive. It was so improper. It was so 

unjust. I don’t care who the President 

is; justice is justice. And for our Attorney General to act like oh, no, no, 

there wasn’t anything. And then I 

know. I read the pleadings of that U.S. 

Attorney where he said there’s plenty 

of evidence to support the name of 

CAIR and others being in here. And he 

convinced the Fifth Circuit of the same 

thing. So he was either lying to the 

courts or he was lying to the paper 

about the evidence. 

And now, after having had the head 

of civil rights of this Justice Department, Mr. Perez, testify that gee, there 

was no political aspect in the decision 

not to pursue the New Black Panther 

Party for what they did at a polling 

place in Pennsylvania, and now we 

have found out this week, Human 

Events has a great article, ‘‘Federal 

judge rules political appointees interfered with voter intimidation case.’’ 

That’s from August 2, posted at 2:12 

p.m. 

There’s one from the American Spectator about the fact that Thomas 

Perez, assistant attorney general, is 

one of the most destructive forces 

against the rule of law in this Nation, 

including being the man responsible for 

the DOJ dropping charges again the 

New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia during the last 

Presidential election. It goes on to talk 

about he appeared before the House of 

Representatives Subcommittee on Constitution, which is a subcommittee of 

the Judiciary Committee, and it goes 

on to say that he questioned Assistant 

Attorney General Perez over the administration’s commitment to First 

Amendment rights. His questions were 

prompted by a Daily Caller article 

from late last year in which Perez was 

quoted as warmly embracing the proposals of Islamist advocates in a meeting at George Washington University, 

among them a request for a legal declaration that U.S. citizens’ criticism of 

Islam constitutes racial discrimination. 

Well, we know that one of the 10-year 

goals of the Muslim Brotherhood is to 

subvert the U.S. Constitution to sharia 

law. And once they convince enough 

people that it should be a crime to 

burn a Koran or to criticize Islam, then 

they can check that box. 

I believe in the Bible. My eternity is 

based on belief of the Bible. But I also 

know under the U.S. Constitution, you 

can burn a Bible. I took a pledge and 

was willing to lay down my life, my 4 

years in the Army, for our flag, but I 

also understand it’s constitutional to 

burn a flag. And yet we have people in 

this injustice department saying they 

want to make it a crime to criticize 

Islam. No wonder they’re purging their 

training materials, eliminating references to Islam. 

As one intelligence officer of this 

government told me, we are blinding 

our ability to see our enemy, and that 

can and will have dangerous consequences if we don’t turn it around. 

Mr. Speaker, wrapping up here before 

we take this August recess that isn’t a 

recess because we will be in pro forma 

session, we’re willing, most of us, Republicans are willing to come back. All 

we have to know is that the Senate is 

finally doing something to pass some of 

the jobs bills we’ve sent their way. And 

in fairness, what we need is Republican 

leadership that will say okay, Senate, 

you want this bill, then you are going 

to have to pass some of the economic 

and jobs bills that will get this economy going, but we haven’t used the leverage Republicans in the House have. 

And, unfortunately, with all of the talk 

about agreeing to another CR, it just 

means that we’ll have finished out 2 

years without cutting anything significant, as we promised 2 years ago after 

the biggest wave election in American 

history since the 1930s. 

It’s time for Americans to make 

clear you want Congress to do what 

was promised when the Congressmen 

got elected. And if we do that, it 

doesn’t matter how obstructive the 

Senate is, it will make it even more 

clear if we use our leverage and say: 

Hey, people, the government is shut 

down on weekends, you seem to live 

okay. Let’s get back to just essential 

needs of the government. Allow a shutdown of other things. Pass my bill that 

will make sure our military gets paid 

during a shutdown, we know Social Security recipients will still get their 

payments in the event of a shutdown, 

and keep the government shut down 

until everybody understands we’re 

going to start living within our means 

as a Congress, like all Americans have 

to do, or declare bankruptcy. They 

have to do that. We can’t afford to declare bankruptcy. We must get this 

government under control. I hope that 

constituents across the country during 

this month will make that clear, and 

we’ll replace the Senators who are 

standing in the way of getting this 

economy going, that we’ll replace the 

administration who is creating injustice and allowing radical Islamic 

jihadists to have any influence at all. 

The Secretary of Homeland Security 

sat there and told me that it did absolutely not happen, that a member of a 

terrorist organization had been allowed 

in the White House; 6 days later, she 

not only admits to the Senate that it 

did happen after she told me absolutely 

not, but she said: Oh, but it’s okay; we 

vetted him three times. 

It’s time for a government that is 

more considerate and concerned about 

providing for the common defense, of 

getting out of the way and letting the 

economy grow than they are about 

playing favorites, playing to their cronies, and playing against religious freedom. 

And with that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 

back the balance of my time. 

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LEAVE OF ABSENCE 

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to: 

Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas (at the request of Ms. PELOSI) for today on account of attending a memorial service 

for her first chief of staff in Houston, 

Texas. 

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SENATE BILL AND A JOINT 

RESOLUTION REFERRED 

A bill and a joint resolution of the 

Senate of the following titles were 

taken from the Speaker’s table and, 

under the rule, referred as follows: 

S. 1409. An act to intensify efforts to identify, prevent, and recover payment error, 

waste, fraud, and abuse within Federal 

spending; to the Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform. 


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S.J. Res. 49. Joint resolution providing for 

the appointment of Barbara Barrett as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the 

Smithsonian Institution; to the Committee 

on House Administration. 

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ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED 

Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House, 

reported and found truly enrolled bills 

of the House of the following titles, 

which were thereupon signed by the 

Speaker: 

H.R. 1369. An act to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located 

at 1021 Pennsylvania Avenue in Hartshorne, 

Oklahoma, as the ‘‘Warren Lindley Post Office’’. 

H.R. 1560. An act to amend the Ysleta del 

Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to 

allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for 

membership in that tribe. 

H.R. 1627. An act to amend title 38, United 

States Code, to furnish hospital care and 

medical services to veterans who were stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 

while the water was contaminated at Camp 

Lejeune, to improve the provision of housing 

assistance to veterans and their families, 

and for other purposes. 

H.R. 1905. An act to strengthen Iran sanctions laws for the purpose of compelling Iran 

to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons 

and other threatening activities and for 

other purposes. 

H.R. 3276. An act to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located 

at 2810 East Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, 

Florida, as the ‘‘Reverend Abe Brown Post 

Office Building’’. 

H.R. 3412. An act to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located 

at 1421 Veterans Memorial Drive in Abbeville, Louisiana, as the ‘‘Sergeant Richard 

Franklin Abshire Post Office Building’’. 

H.R. 3501. An act to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located 

at 125 Kerr Avenue in Rome City, Indiana, as 

the ‘‘SPC Nicholas Scott Hartge Post Office’’. 

H.R. 3772. An act to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located 

at 150 South Union Street in Canton, Mississippi, as the ‘‘First Sergeant Landres 

Cheeks Post Office Building’’. 

H.R. 5986 An act to amend the African 

Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the 

third-country fabric program and to add 

South Sudan to the list of countries eligible 

for designation under that Act, to make 

technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States relating to 

the textile and apparel rules of origin for the 

Dominican Republic-Central America-United 

States Free Trade Agreement, to approve the 

renewal of import restrictions contained in 

the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 

2003, and for other purposes. 

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SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED 

The Speaker announced his signature 

to enrolled bills of the Senate of the 

following titles: 

S. 270. An act to direct the Secretary of the 

Interior to convey certain Federal land to 

Deschutes County, Oregon. 

S. 271. An act to require the Secretary of 

Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and 

for other purposes. 

S. 739. An act to authorize the Architect of 

the Capitol to establish battery recharging 

stations for privately owned vehicles in 

parking areas under the jurisdiction of the 

Senate at no net cost to the Federal Government. 

S. 3363. An act to provide for the use of National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center 

Commemorative Coin surcharges, and for 

other purposes. 

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ADJOURNMENT 

Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I move 

that the House do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o’clock and 29 minutes 

p.m.), under its previous order, the 

House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, August 3, 2012, at 10 a.m. 

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EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, 

ETC. 

Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive 

communications were taken from the 

Speaker’s table and referred as follows: 

7167. A letter from the Assistant Secretary 

for Export Administration, Department of 

Commerce, transmitting the Department’s 

final rule — Export and Reexport Controls to 

Rwanda and United Nations Sanctions under 

the Export Administration Regulations 

[Docket No.: 110725414-1480-01] (RIN: 0694- 

AF31) received July 18, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

7168. A letter from the Senior Program Analyst, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department’s final rule — 

Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, 

and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous Amendments 

[Docket No.: 03849; Amdt. No. 3485] received 

July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7169. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class E Airspace; Livingston, MT [Docket 

No.: FAA-2012-0139; Airspace Docket No. 12- 

ANM-3] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7170. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class D Airspace; Pontiac, MI [Docket No.: 

FAA-2011-1142; Airspace Docket No. 11-AGL22] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7171. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class E Airspace; Memphis, TN [Docket No.: 

FAA-2011-1211; Airspace Docket No. 11-ASO40] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7172. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Revocation of 

Class D Airspace; Andalusia, AL and Amendment of Class E Airspace; Fort Rucker, AL 

[Docket No.: FAA-2011-1457; Airspace Docket 

No. 11-ASO-47] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7173. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class D and Class E Airspace; Lakehurst, NJ 

[Docket No.: FAA-2012-0456; Airspace Docket 

No. 12-AEA-9] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7174. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Establishment 

of Area Navigation (RNAV) Routes; Southwestern United States [Docket No.: FAA2012-0286; Airspace Docket No. 11-AWP-22] 

(RIN: 2120-AA66) received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7175. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class E Airspace; Fairfield, CA [Docket No.: 

FAA-2012-0196; Airspace Docket No. 12-AWP2] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7176. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Establishment 

of Class E Airspace; Eureka, NV [Docket No.: 

FAA-2011-1333; Airspace Docket No. 11-AWP19] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7177. A letter from the Program Analyst, 

Department of Transportation, transmitting 

the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 

Class E Airspace; Woodland, CA [Docket No.: 

FAA-2012-0354; Airspace Docket No. 12-AWP3] received July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7178. A letter from the Senior Program Analyst, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department’s final rule — 

Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, 

and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous Amendments 

[Docket No.: 30851; Amdt. No. 3486] received 

July 20, 2012, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7179. A letter from the SLSDC Chief Counsel, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Department’s final rule — Seaway 

Regulations and Rules: Periodic Update, 

Various Categories [Docket No.: SLSDC-2012- 

0001] (RIN: 2135-AA30) received July 20, 2012, 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 

7180. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 

Army, Civil Works, Department of Defense, 

transmitting recommended modifications of 

the project authorization to increase the authorized cost of the Little Calumet River, Indiana, Local Flood Control and Recreation 

Project; (H. Doc. No. 112—131); to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

and ordered to be printed. 

7181. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 

Army, Civil Works, Department of Defense, 

transmitting the Corps Final Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement; 

(H. Doc. No. 112—130); to the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure and ordered to be printed. 

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON 

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 

Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of 

committees were delivered to the Clerk 

for printing and reference to the proper 

calendar, as follows: 

Mr. SMITH of Texas: Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 5949. a bill to extend the FISA 

Amendments Act of 2008 for five years; with 

an amendment (Rept. 112–645, Pt. 1). Referred 

to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

state of the Union. 

Mr. ROGERS of Michigan: Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. H.R. 5949. A 

bill to extend the FISA Amendments Act of 


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