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Thank you, Mrs. Comstock, for this report. More importantly, thank you for your thoughtful and exemplary leadership of this outstanding organization. The Chair thanks the former Members of the House for your presence here today. On behalf…
The Chair thanks and congratulates Chairwoman Bice. The Chair now invites two former Members, Dennis Ross of Florida and Cheri Bustos of Illinois, to offer remarks.
At this time the Chair recognizes Former Members of Congress President, the Honorable Barbara Comstock, for remarks.
I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
I am looking forward to working with your office personally. Let us just resolve that issue.
My experience has been trying to convince people to cut it, it’s kind of like going to heaven.
They're spending money in our view, recklessly and so, yes, we've had a lot of discussions over the last couple of days about what our authority would be to claw some of that back and to stop it.
It is my district that has been most severely injured by this pause which has in itself injured the planet.
The mandate voters gave House Republicans to hold President Biden accountable.
I'm scared to death of what he's going to do. And some of that comes from what's happening with his cabinet choices.
We're going to work with facts and not fiction.
As if in legislative session and notwithstanding rule XXII, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the following bills, en bloc: Calendar No. 451, S. 2546; Calendar No. 452, S. 3946; Calendar No…
There's got to be a graceful way for us to navigate these issues.
We'll evaluate all that at the appropriate time, and we'll make the appropriate decision. There may be a function for that, and we'll have to see how it plays out.
Now we live in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Now we live in the age of social media, the politics and the dynamics are very different.
There's a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the House Ethics Committee's jurisdiction does not extend to non-members of Congress. I think that would be a Pandora's box.