This was a clear assassination attempt, and he decided to use murder or assassination as a tool for a political change.
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John Lewis, a colleague, great American, he used to say 'good trouble.' He did not have this in mind.
This is really important because not only, as it has been mentioned, can we take away the incentive for someone to act in a nefarious way, we are going to preserve the idea that all Americans will have a voice here in Congress virtually at…
It is incredibly serious, and it is serious and so important for the country.
If it takes a Committee to appoint a Committee to make a study to eventually get something done, let us do it now.
There are some who believe that this issue needs more study. Personally I do not think that.
The status quo also creates a perverse incentive for political violence through targeted killings designed to switch the majority party in the House.
I am convinced that there are both constitutional and operational insufficiencies with the status quo.
We should not be allowing slave laborers to benefit from American markets.
We're not mad at Haitian migrants for wanting to have a better life. We're angry at Kamala Harris for letting this happen to a small Ohio town.
We can't rely on other people to make the stuff we need.
We've got to stop this. American citizens are suffering because of what she's done.
If you want access to our market, you've got to pay our workers fair wages.
He thinks it's ridiculous to talk about vetoing a piece of legislation that isn't going to come before the president in the first place.
He wants abortion policy to be made by the states because he thinks, look, Alabama's going to make a different decision from California, and that's okay.
If such a piece of legislation landed on Donald Trump's desk, would he veto it? Yes, I mean, if you're not supporting it as the President of the United States, you fundamentally have to veto it.
Kamala Harris opened the border, she made food unaffordable. We should be talking about her failure as an American leader.
Kamala Harris opened the border with no plan for how to assimilate 20,000 people.