are we changing? we re against new i.d. that requires people to get things that seniors and students don t have and the the only reason you would have it is because you want to try and knock out a lot of voters. many of them of color, which is the same reason why you d have a vote of contempt for someone that s cooperating with you because you really don t wantç cooperation. you want to play politics using all kind of the attic, rather than dealing with the facts. fortune magazine, the author, questioned whether the fast and furious program really was what they said it was. why aren t that hesitating with this revelation out saying let s lack at this. see what the program was. because they re not after the truth. they can t handle the truth. indeed. i should tell you that the attorney general has issued a statement just now, and he says
way they have. reverend al sharpton, are you still with us, sir? yes, i am. is that not what you have been saying every day for the past few weeks? yes, and not only have iç sd it and not only has former speaker pelosi said it, senator john cornyn said it when he, in a public hearing, said he wanted the attorney general to resign, he looked at him and said because he has not cooperated with fast and furious, which by the way, isn t true, and because he is stopping states from dealing with voter fraud that doesn t exist. so we re not guessing here. they said voter fraud was part of what they wanted to hold him in contempt for, which is an outrangs abuse of power. it is clearly something that has nothing to do with fast and furious. everything to do with the republicans to suppress the vote and they want to try and handcuff the attorney general for protecting people voter rights in this country and
affordable care act and rather than being such sore losers, we ought to be concentrating on what we can do to help more people be winners by creating jobs, implementing this health care bill and bringing their troops home. indeed. we re waiting for a vote. we understand that the members of congress are actually still debating at the moment. we re beginning to learn about this specific operation though. given the efforts of eric holder that he s made in disclosing as many dolts he can, given that any court hearings are unlikely to take place within about three years, what is the point of this process other than a witch hunt, a show trial, a complete waste of time when you know, senator, when you know full well there s a transportation bill that needs to be passed and student loans need to be prevented from well, that s exactly right. i think this is a distraction against governing.
has been held in contempt of congress. and why. i can tell you that the attorney general, justice department is a place where the american people look for us to uphold the constitution by enabling everybody to have the right to vote, have that vote be counted so that we have a true do democracy. that is the primary place. the ultimate place where we can fight voter suppression. for this and other reasons, that are undemocratic withç the sma d, the republicans decided to go after this attorney general. and after him, who s next? because these are trumped up what they re bringing to the floor is false. beneath the dignity of debate on the floor of the house and a cause for great concern, so i thank my colleagues when they said what they wanted to do and how they would like to express
and then on this, he stands up and again attacks the president, but offers nothing constructive. well, immigration of course, the president acted in an extra constitutional manner. we can debate the legality of that. i m asking you if you believe the romney is a consistently vacuous candidate. absolutely not. on matters of importance. absolutely not. immigration and health care this president has had two years of a democratically controlled congress. i think governor romney again would be wise to be specific, but he s smart recognizing that wed be in a situation like we are right here where they re going to attack, attack, attack. let s talk about contempt because as you can probablyç s, david, members, democratic members have walked out of the house as a protest against a vote to hold the attorney general in contempt.