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Rh four-page memo to the whole House. And now we are in a position where we can be silent and get truth out there by talking around the problem or violating our oath to keeping classified information. which I know no one on this committee, both -- either side would ever do.

And so, Mr. Chairman, I support Mr. Schiff's motion, but I hope that the logic extends throughout the rest of his motions that I am hearing from the majority, which is that if the majority‘s memo is going to go to the entire body of the House, that the minority's memo will be allowed to; but that, if the majority's memo is going to be allowed to go to the public, that the minority's reluctantly memo would also be allowed to go to the public.

Again, I hope that We can just limit this and not vote to release the majority's memo to the public. because we are. again. violating an agreement with the Department of Justice. We are talking about the most classified materials.

And I take it, Mr. Chairman, as a privilege to serve on this committee. We are 1 of 22 individuals who are tmsted to conduct oversight of our Intelligence Community. And Mr. Stewart and I talked about this 2 weeks ago, that to conduct oversight properly, you know, we have the power of the purse, we have the ability to subpoena them and bring them in, but there is also just trust.

And if we were to put out to the public the most sensitive materials that they have trusted us to look at without asking them to conduct a review, without collaborating together to make sure that inaccuracies are not disseminated to the public, we will break the trust with them.

And we may not see the effect of it today or tomorrow. but I promise that, as we bring them in on other non-Russia-related matters. they are going to be more guarded. they are not going to trust us, because we will have broken an