Steny Hoyer

Mr. HOYER

Mr. HOYER. That is your rule.

Mr. HOYER. That is your rule, Mr. Scalise.

Mr. HOYER. That is your rule in the Republican rule that we adopted.

Mr. HOYER. That is your rule in the Republican rule that we adopted.

Mr. HOYER. Fine. We are going under your rules.

Mr. HOYER. When we were in the minority, we were not allowed to do what you are requesting to do. We were not allowed to do it----

Mr. HOYER.--in any of the hearings.

Mr. HOYER. These are your rules, Mr. Scalise.

Mr. HOYER. Ask your counsel.

Mr. HOYER. Ask your counsel if those are your rules.

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, apparently, he does not want to answer----

Mr. HOYER.--about it being his rule.

Mr. HOYER. Does the gentleman not trust Mr. Nunes? Apparently, there is no answer to that question. Mr. Nunes is the ranking Republican and very close friend, associate, and defender of the President of the United States. He is there to hear every word. My presumption is he also can tell every word to his colleagues.

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker----

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, he yielded to me. Is he reclaiming his time and shutting me up?

Mr. HOYER. You didn't answer it. But if you want to answer----

Mr. HOYER. Do you trust Mr. Nunes?

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. He hasn't answered my question yet, but I will assert again----

Mr. HOYER. I assert, again, to anyone who is listening, we are operating----

Mr. HOYER.--with respect to that under the rules that the Republicans adopted in their rules package and applied to our side when we were in the minority, Madam Speaker. The same rules that they imposed upon us they are now complaining about because they don't think they were fair. Apparently, they thought they were fair when they were applied to the Democratic minority. But, apparently, now those same rules--their rules they adopted and voted for--are not fair because they are in the minority. Very frankly, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. What is fair to the goose is fair to the gander. They are your rules, Mr. Scalise. You ask your counsel. We adopted your rules on the issuing of subpoenas--your rules.

Mr. HOYER. We are in an exercise of our constitutional responsibility----

Mr. HOYER. Is the gentleman going to let me answer?

Mr. HOYER. The answer is that we are involved in exercising our constitutional responsibility to oversee, to make sure that the laws of this Nation and the Constitution of this Nation are honored in practice and in spirit but particularly in practice. Let me ask the gentleman a question. Do you think it is okay to ask foreign leaders to interfere in our elections?

Mr. HOYER. Certainly. It is your time, you yielded to me, and I am asking a question.

Mr. HOYER. You want to talk about process. That is substance.