Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the bill proposed by Speaker Ryan, a day after the big lie was finally admitted to by President Trump, the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the resident White House sociopath, Stephen Miller, that ripping children from their mothers and fathers and jailing them was solely an administrative decision, not a law, not a loophole, not the fault of Democrats, but, instead, the singular, cynical, and cruel policy of the Trump administration. Yet H.R. 6136 does nothing to remedy the damage of that policy for children, for their parents, and does nothing to soothe the conscience of our Nation. H.R. 6136 has no oversight or public review of for-profit and nonprofit detention centers, nothing to reunite 2,300 children with their families, and eliminates the standards of care for children in detention centers. Today was supposed to be about DACA recipients. This bill does nothing for them either. Their fate is tied to spending 23 billion taxpayer dollars on a political gift to Trump for a wall, a wall that circumvents environmental law, puts our lands, water, and wildlife and border land communities at risk, and a point system that could disqualify over 80 percent of current and previously eligible Dreamers.…”