He stated the subpoenas before the Justice Department is about terrorists? To begin, that is Homeland Security. There is nothing introduced at all about terrorist activity involved with this? I don't believe Lungren can assure jurisdiction under that standard.
5:00 PM on the House floor: Issa just admitted he subjugated the hearings regarding the priorities of the ATF agents in regard to gun control to protect the agents as brought forward by the minority members. That is the problem here. Issa conducted a political agenda at the cost of the American people while subjugating the authority of committee to come to conclusions to legislate to protect the agents and hence the American people. There is continued violence in Mexico due to continued traffiking of weapons and Issa stands in the way of resolving that.
Rep. Laborador's priority is wrongly applied if there are agents before the committee sincerely interested in their own protection and their peers. A House Committee is not suppose to postpone the proper legislation to protect the nation by extending reading sessions of classified documents. If there are only 5% of the documents provided the list may be inappropriate. The need for hearings to develop legislation to protect the nation isn't suppose to be overburdened by unnecessary hunting for reasons to act. The delay in obtaining the needed facts is the fact of the lack of leadership in the House. The majority is divided with a minority of freshman seeking to scrutinize the record rather than obtain the facts and legislate.
Testimony means something. It costs real money to bring agents from the field to testify before the House. Issa is wasting everyone's time. Let's just say the program was signed off by the Justice Department. Basically, so what? The standard of operation was already set before the previous administration. The death of Officer Brian Terry ended the program. Authorizing a program does mean the Justice Department carried it out, it means there was funding for requests from ATF. The entire focus is ridiculous and political. The focus by Issa has not satisfied the needs of the agents in the field and leaves the USA vulnerable to violence and drugs from Mexico across the USA border. It is outrageous what has happened here and it isn't the fault of the Justice Department. The House nor Senate has legislated the necessary law to protect the nation and our agents.
There has been one death. One unfortunate death, but, it has brought to light the need to act and not delay the protection of Americans and our agents. It is time the House actually listens to the needs of the ATF and the Border Patrol rather than standing in the way of them.
5:00 PM on the House floor: Issa just admitted he subjugated the hearings regarding the priorities of the ATF agents in regard to gun control to protect the agents as brought forward by the minority members. That is the problem here. Issa conducted a political agenda at the cost of the American people while subjugating the authority of committee to come to conclusions to legislate to protect the agents and hence the American people. There is continued violence in Mexico due to continued traffiking of weapons and Issa stands in the way of resolving that.
Rep. Laborador's priority is wrongly applied if there are agents before the committee sincerely interested in their own protection and their peers. A House Committee is not suppose to postpone the proper legislation to protect the nation by extending reading sessions of classified documents. If there are only 5% of the documents provided the list may be inappropriate. The need for hearings to develop legislation to protect the nation isn't suppose to be overburdened by unnecessary hunting for reasons to act. The delay in obtaining the needed facts is the fact of the lack of leadership in the House. The majority is divided with a minority of freshman seeking to scrutinize the record rather than obtain the facts and legislate.
Testimony means something. It costs real money to bring agents from the field to testify before the House. Issa is wasting everyone's time. Let's just say the program was signed off by the Justice Department. Basically, so what? The standard of operation was already set before the previous administration. The death of Officer Brian Terry ended the program. Authorizing a program does mean the Justice Department carried it out, it means there was funding for requests from ATF. The entire focus is ridiculous and political. The focus by Issa has not satisfied the needs of the agents in the field and leaves the USA vulnerable to violence and drugs from Mexico across the USA border. It is outrageous what has happened here and it isn't the fault of the Justice Department. The House nor Senate has legislated the necessary law to protect the nation and our agents.
There has been one death. One unfortunate death, but, it has brought to light the need to act and not delay the protection of Americans and our agents. It is time the House actually listens to the needs of the ATF and the Border Patrol rather than standing in the way of them.
