Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today on this solemn occasion to urge my colleagues to take the rare step of exercising the expulsion clause of the United States Constitution. Congressman George Santos has failed to uphold the principles of scrupulous, selfless public service. He has violated the law and he has violated this body's ethics rules. As a member of the Ethics Committee, I can report that the evidence against him is substantial and damning. I can also report that there was no rush to judgment. During the course of our investigation, the Ethics Committee authorized 37 subpoenas, issued 43 requests for information, obtained and reviewed over 172,000 pages of documents, interviewed over 40 witnesses, and reviewed relevant public information, including the Federal indictments in the criminal case in New York. Our bipartisan investigation revealed that he laundered $50,000 of his campaign donors' money through two personal accounts and spent it on himself on designer clothes, a car payment, a credit card, and personal debts. He cheated the government out of $24,000 in unemployment benefits during the pandemic when he was earning a salary of $120,000 from an investment firm. He lied and said he loaned his unsuccessful campaign for Congress over $80,000, and repaid himself for the fictitious loan, netting a personal profit of $27,000. In the second--this time successful campaign for Congress--he lied again, this time to the tune of $500,000.…”