in the united states we don't pay federal judges to go to the penitentiary. he should be impeached today by this body. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back. the gentleman from texas reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, also a member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. first i want to thank all of those who volunteered on this task force for impeachment and i want to thank chairman conyers and ranking member smith for pulling this together in their professional fashion and people on our side of the aisle and mr. schiff of california who has conducted himself, i think, with a solid degree of professionalism throughout the proceedings. i'm very well aware, mr. speaker, that this is a rare and extraordinary step this congress is taking. and that this is a s

marion federal penitentiary in my own home state has 33 convicted terrorists. just spent a week down there not far from your home state. there was not fear among the people living in that area because 33 terrorists are being held at marion. do you know why? because our corrections officers there are the best. and i went in to see them and i sat down with them. they are concerned, angry, even insulted at the suggestion that they cannot safely hold dangerous people. one of the guards said to me, we held john gotti. he was convicted of being involved in gangland tivment we are holding terrorists -- gangland activity. we are holding terrorists from colombia in drug gangs, we're holding them safely. we're holding serial murderers safely. we know how to do this, senator. and if your colleagues in the senate don't believe it, have them come and visit marion federal penitentiary. they are doing their job and doing it well. and to come to the floor of the senate repeatedly and suggest that we are in danger as a nation because convicted terrorists are being held in our p

the rest of his life and he ended up president of the country that sentenced him to a life in a penitentiary. it could not be done. social security was supposed to be the worst thing that ever happened and i have some of the debates. you would not believe what some people said in opposition to the social security. it could not be done. it would not work. what about medicare? it was fought tooth and nail, i know, because i was here. now we have a obama's himself, you can elect, please faults, you can elect a person of color to the highest most powerful position on earth, it is impossible. it was all possible and it was done and i am asking you to consider the political necessity of bringing up a bill that they said was off the table, then they said it could not pass, i think the american people are watching very closely. and i am saying now was the time, and i thank you for allowing me to make this introduction and include the papers that i would like to be part of the record as well. thank you for this opportunity ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you, mr. chairman. as usual, you hav

for crimes against nature was the same as that for perjury convictions, 20 years in the state penitentiary. and points of fact, the florida sodomy statute did not include a definition of a sort of conduct that would constitute a crime and citizens arrested for crimes against nature could not predict severity of punishment imposed by the court if convicted. soon in this climate the imprisonment to get people to talk was often effective. yet some courageous men and women denied his accusations and throughout the course of the interrogation and provided very little information. others to figure cooperation was a better strategy shifted from denials to a new verse that -- definitions and at this point strickland would pose the most personal of his questions and getting the teaches privacy and crudest fashion. there might still be some wrangling over what counted as homosexuality but in most cases witnesses simply answer the questions. how long have had homosexual tendencies, when was the first time you engaged in homosexual acts, how often you have sex with another woman or man, what caused yo

would be a felony and there is a specific section in the code, punishable by eight years in the penitentiary. if the intelligence community should lie to the united states congress. title 18. it's very specific. so this has got to be stopped and resolved. this congress has got to bring it to a head. and i appreciate the gentleman from texas for bringing this special order and opportunity to echo this out across the american people and i yield back. mr. carter: i thank my friend. and i recognize my friend from georgia. seems like he has something he wants to say. mr. gingrey: i appreciate the gentleman for yielding and i appreciate him having the courage as well as the courage of my colleague from iowa, representative steve king, to come to the floor and to talk about issues like this. as i said earlier in my remarks, it is very painful and hard to do, but it's something that has to be done. if the c.i.a., as i said before, if they are lying to someone who is third in line to the president, the speaker of the house, and there's a pattern of that lying, we've got some serious problems. and it

i'vi'm ready to get to the penitentiary, because if you don't get me out of this jail, i'm going to tear it apart. i was hurting real bad inside. i was trying to understand why this was happening to me, which i did not. you know, i told him, i said lord, what did i do to deserve such cruelty, such miscarriage of justice, but it happened. it had happened for a reason. no, sir just for the season. but i went on to the pen, and while i was, you know, serving my time, about 94 days later, i was walking through the central prison and i happened to notice correction officer escorting another inmate that caught my attention. i glanced up at him, and i said he looks familiar, but i proceeded on to my destiny. and later that night, i pulled out the photo, composite sketch, drawing, with the guy that committed on jennifer. two days later, i noticed the guy back out in the population, i approached him. i was in the middle of a hand ballgame and i had someone to relieve me so i walked up to him, i said excuse me, where are you from 7? he said i'm from burlington. i said you look like a composite ske

challenger was shot out of an airplane, not a good way to -- good way to end up in the federal penitentiary if you do that, but anyway, i photographed him. over the years, i've been kind of picking my way, trying to get i've conic america. one of my best stories possibly is mt. rushmore, going there early in the morning at 5:00 a.m. to get your tripod spot, you think everything is completely set. there's not a tourist in sight. the sun is coming upping going to hit all four presidents perfectly. hours go by, i bring up more cameras, more tripods, more equipment, wait and wait and wait. suddenly the first pink color starts to hit george washington's carved in granite and then it's hitting jefferson but not hitting the other two presidents, because they're all living in the shadows of george washington. and as you can say, that metaphorically as well. infoographer, that's not a -- photography, that's not a good thing. you want even light willing on all four of them. so i wait and wait and the pink light is slightly golden, which is what you want, and slightly to yellow and then suddenly the s