we want to try to strike that balance between security and accessibility, but clearly, we`re not ready to take the fences and all the barriers down. The Capitol is still very much a target.

it wouldn’t just be him being removed from committees, the Ethics Committee would go after him.

Those are serious implications if it comes out to be true, yes we would remove them if that was the case but right now as Matt Gaetz says is not true and we don`t have any information, so let`s get all the information.

If a member of my conference gets indicted, they’ll get removed from a committee. He says this is not true, and we have a newspaper report that says something else.

He will drive up the cost of their utilities, their gas prices, the cost of their cars, the clothes, they dress their children in, everything that they do each and every day will be more expensive, their budgets will be tighter because…

I thought that sounded wrong when he said it this morning turns out he cleaned it up late this afternoon and I am glad to hear it.

I would only plan to remove Matt Gaetz from his committees and congressional responsibilities if he gets convicted of child sex trafficking.

As a Congress, as a Nation, we cannot tolerate any voter suppression or any voter discrimination whatsoever.

Indeed, as the U.S. Supreme Court observed in Wesberry v. Sanders, 'other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.'

One of our most sacred rights in this country is the right to vote.

The law was renewed periodically on a bipartisan basis, the last time led by then-Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner on the Judiciary Committee.

Ted Lieu called for Gaetz to be removed from the House Judiciary Committee until the investigation is complete, saying he’s facing a Justice Department investigation.

There is a very serious federal investigation opened under the Trump administration.

During that entire bizarre interview, Congressman Matt Gaetz does not deny the existence of a federal investigation against him that is looking at whether or not he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl.

Those are serious implications if it comes out to be true, yes we would remove him if that was the case. But right now as Matt Gaetz says is not true and we don't have any information. So let's get all the information.

They vote no and take the dough.

It also bans use of no-knock warrants in drug cases like the warrant used in the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.

Congress should act, not only to encourage adequate funding for State defendant systems, but also should look at an independent and adequately funded federal defender system.