black panther party, there were two lawyers involved in the dismissal of this steve rosenbaum and loretta king. according to the article written in "the national review" by one of their writers, who has a personal knowledge of most of the lawyers involved in justice on these issues, that rosenbaum and king are two of the worst political hacks to be found in the career ranks of the civil rights division. that's an exact quote out of his article hefplg goes on to say, i have previously written about king's ambition to run for office in maryland on the democratic ticket. putting that aside, rosenbaum hasn't worked on a voting case since he left the voting section in 1994, yet he came in in 2009 to can sell -- can zell the most -- cancel the most open and shut intimidation case. that's new black panther party members, standing in paramilitary uniforms and berets, billy club in hand, calling white voters coming in crackers and intimidating them and at least implicitly threatening them. they canceled the investigation when he was video of the most open and shut voter intimidation case in the history

that's strike number two against loretta king in the justice department. she had a third, a rule 11 being applied for filing a specious case that was unfounded and it cost the federal government $750,000 because she brought a case that couldn't be supported that was false and specious and unfounded and there's better language for that to be found under the rule 11 language that's there. all of this, the justice department can't investigate and continue with the most open-and-shut voter discrimination case they can selled the will of the people of kinston, north carolina, based on the decision of loretta king who brought a false and specious case that cost the american people $570,000, all the while they have the resources to investigate arizona with no rational reason why, no constitutional thing they can point to, they can't even investigate acorn. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognizes the gentlema