I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.