Chris Van Hollen

Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund?

Well, as it makes plain, anybody is... Just let me know if they're eligible for the fund.

Mr. Attorney General, let me ask you this.

Are there going to be rules that say that if you've assaulted a Capitol Hill police officer or committed a violent crime, you will not be eligible?

Why not make that a rule?

You're appointing four of the five members, aren't you, Mr. Attorney General?

Pardon me?

You're appointing four of the five members.

I am appointing all five members.

You can certainly set up the rules.

I would hope you would make a rule that anyone convicted of assaulting a police officer or a violent crime is simply not eligible.

They should not apply.

Let me ask you this, because you compared it to the Keeps Eagle case.

But I think you know full well that in that case, the settlement agreement was approved by a federal judge, including the payments to people who were not originally parties to the lawsuit.

No federal judge has approved this fund, have they, Mr. Attorney General?

So that's a big difference between this case and the case that you compared it to?

Did a judge sign off on this case?

A judge did sign off on the other one?

Of course it is, because that allows for an independent person to look at it rather than the former person.

There was no independence.