To . Who has a family of high ranking government officials receiving money, car and luxury items from a Foreign Government . You might have said senator menendez. Youd be right. Hunter biden would also receive those same things. Mr. Turley, in your experience, is it a concerning that a public official like joe biden is involved with the Cefc China Energy company with ties to ccp and chairman yi who was later detined by china for fraud . Certainly is a concern that some of these individuals have been either accused or has been convicted of fraud including one by the United States government. The question is whether that conduct extended to the Vice President or the president today and whether that is part of a continue youll of conduct. When you see a pattern of problems, particularly in corruption, doesnt that pattern continue . A cover up. Do you agree with that statement . I do. We call it pattern ed. Thats what we look for when doing investigations to see what is continuing in that
gentleman yield back. for what purpose does ms. lesko. mr. chair, it really quite disturbs me when you again rejected the rule of the house that said that we as the minority it says in the rules that you require require that you set a date for a minority hearing. the reason that this is important is because the rules have been thrown out the window here in this process. in fact, i just can t believe it. first of all, you have an unprecedented way of doing impeachment. you don t go through the judiciary committee like has been done in previous impeachments. instead, speaker pelosi hands it over to adam schiff. adam schiff, the intelligence committee chair, where he has
burton, and i think this law probably should be tightened up. i really do, because i agree with you. perception is reality. anybody that s been in politics knows that. and i take your point on this. well, thank you very much. i still love you, ray. thank you. gentleman yield back? yield back. i recognize the gentleman from maryland, representative cummings. thank you very much, mr. chairman. and to secretary lahood, it s good to have you here. one of the things that we find ourselves in quite a dilemma here. on the one hand as mr. kanjorski has said, we want to be very careful about what we re doing here because we do have number one, one of our main trading partners, japan involved. on the other hand, though, we have the safety of citizens. many of our constituents who