Bill Browder Quotes

The Republican Majority of the House, when Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, was running for President, established a select committee to investigate an incident that occurred in the State Department during Clinton's term. However, there already had been both House and Senate hearings and numerous investigations of the same incident. This committee uniquely was established with no deadlines to finish their work and an unlimited budget. Soon it became clear that the focus of the Republican efforts was on Mrs. Clinton and not on State Department activities except as how they might be negative to Clinton. Even leading Republicans admitted that the majority had abused its Congressional power to investigate to achieve primarily partisan advantage. See {582958} for Hanna's later statement when he incurred the ire of some of the Republicans for his admitting the truth.

In 2015, a group of hyper-partisan Republicans initiated yet another investigation of the attack on an American Consulate in Libya where the U. S Ambassador was killed. The incident had occurred when Hilary Clinton had been Secretary of State some time earlier. However, she was then the leading Democratic Candidate for President, and some Republicans wanted to question her under oath in the hopes that they could find something to embarrass her and derail her surging campaign. Hanna and a few other Republicans admitted the truth as they were opposed to the abuse of the Congressional power to investigate for partisan purposes. However, the reaction against Hanna by some members of his own party was extremely harsh. The theory of the Hanna critics was that telling the truth was in this case highly embarrassing to the Party and damaged the credibility of many accusations made against Mrs. Clinton who turned the tables on the investigators in when they questioned her for over 11 hours straight, and despite the total absurdity of the hearing and the questions—all of which had been asked before, she comported herself with Presidential dignity and pretended to take the hearings very seriously and answered the same loaded questions repeatedly. See {582957} for his earlier statements.

In the spring of 1800 New York State legislators were elected. The legislators were then to choose the presidential electors. If New York's electors voted for Jefferson he would likely beat the Federalists, who had just lost their majority in the legislature. Alexander Hamilton wrote to fellow Federalist Governor John Jay proposing to have the sitting legislature change the law to select Presidential electors by popular vote:

Watkins was the first Dallas County Black DA. He was being interviewed because DNA testing proved that a man who had served 30 years in prison for rape and robbery, could not have committed the crime, and he had just been released. Watkins quotation was very significant because it set forth a philosophy that while extant in other areas of the country is almost unheard of in Texas, where there have been more innocent men convicted than in any other state. DAs in Texas usually fight every attempt to examine old evidence with modern tools.

He had just organized a new website, USAFacts, which took many of the numbers of government spending and economic descriptors of our society, and organzied them in a report. He was asked whether the website had a liberal or conservative point of view.