mr. nugent: i yield the gentlelady 15 seconds. mrs. adams: i ask you today to approve this resolution, bring some credibility back to our department of justice. this department of justice, if it had happened in another agency throughout this nation, and one of our officers had died and the department of justice was involved in the investigation, they would be asking for the same dumonts that we are asking for. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern sfk let me say to the gentlelady, if she's interested in why the united states pursued this gun walking program, talk to the attorney general under the bush administration, attorney general mccasey, where this thing started five years ago. and unfortunately, not withstanding the fact that the democrats have asked that he be called before the committee, their requests have been denied. she wants to know why this is political? every single witness that the democrats asked to be brought before the committee was denied. every si

mr. nugent: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. mr. scott: we have been trying for 18 long months to get to the bottom of this issue, and yet we are being stonewalled, and yes we hear that the federal government has provided 7,000-plus pages. but, mr. speaker, there are over 100,000 pages that we have requested. we are talking about a period from february 4, 2011 to december, 2011 where we were given false information. it is our responsibility, it is our duty to find the truth for the american people and the terry family. let me close, mr. speaker, by simply saying. how are we supposed to protect and ensure the safety of our border patrol agents in the future if we do not know who allowed the guns to walk across the border? how are we supposed to give brian terry's family any sense of closure, mr. speaker? this is why we have no choice but to be here today. the refusal of the attorney general to provide answers to brian terry's death, leaves us no choice

mr. nugent: mr. speaker, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. nugent: mr. speaker, i think we can all agree integrity of our elections are fundamental importance to this democracy. we need to ensure that everyone who is eligible to vote has the ability to vote, and those that are ineligible to vote are stopped from voting in our election. it is also our responsibility to ensure that this responsibility falls largely on the states to ensure that voters have the right to vote that are eligible to. they do this by making sure that their voter rolls are clean. that their voter rolls are accurate, it's important the states have the ability to do that. in my own state of florida and others throughout this country, the federal government is being asked to help. . the department of homeland security has been unwilling to help those states that need it the most. d.h.s. is denying florida the systematic alienation identification database, or save, as it's commonly refe