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Debbie Lesko: I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for yielding me the time. Lawlessness has broken out across our Nation.…

On the recordJune 26, 2020
I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for yielding me the time. Lawlessness has broken out across our Nation. It is absolutely outrageous, and it has to be stopped. Mobs are taking over parts of the city of Seattle. They took over a police precinct. Just last Saturday, people were shot, and one man was killed. Criminals are looting stores and businesses all over the Nation, including in Arizona in the upscale Scottsdale Fashion Square. Protestors are throwing bricks at police officers. They are throwing water bottles at police officers. And I have seen them shine flashlights right up close into the police officers' eyes and call them all kinds of names. Rioters are burning the flag, the American flag. And the Lincoln Memorial and World War II Memorial have been defaced. Madam Speaker, a few days ago, St. Serra, the patron saint of peace, was torn down in San Francisco. Francis Scott Key's statue was torn down. The statue of Ulysses Grant, who was the general for the Union was torn down by thugs in San Francisco. {time} 1730 And then we saw the other night how they were trying so hard, these criminals, to tear down the statue in Lafayette Park. And they almost had it torn down, if it wasn't for the Trump administration sending in the National Guard to stop. And do you know what they wrote and spray-painted on that statue, that Federal statue? ``Killer scum.'' Does any of this show tribute to George Floyd? No. Does any of this help? Absolutely not.…
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Debbie Lesko
Republican · Arizona
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Jun 26, 2020

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