Dana Rohrabacher: “it is sacrilegious, it is a Trojan horse, we are working somehow to gag and to silence the opposition. We are shutting…”

“it is sacrilegious, it is a Trojan horse, we are working somehow to gag and to silence the opposition. We are shutting down the opposition, shutting down free speech, and we are trying to silence people and this is a cynical fraud. We hear all of these very pejorative phrases, and Members seem to be trying to do everything they possibly can not to focus on exactly what we are debating here. It is one thing to stand up and call everybody a bunch of names, but it is another thing to try to confront exactly what we are voting on. We are voting here, and what we are supposed to be discussing is whether or not people who are working should be permitted, should be required, before they can take something out of their paycheck and use it for political purposes, that they should have the right to have to have a signoff, that before you can take something from somebody, they should sign a document saying, it is okay for you to take it and use it for political purposes. I do not think calling it sacrilegious, a Trojan horse and talking about we are trying to silence somebody, we are trying to prevent people from being robbed. We are trying to prevent people from saying, you have a right to take something out of your paycheck and use it for something that you do not believe in. We are not the government. We are a private group and we have that right with your money. Well, that is what we are defining here. It is not sacrilegious. It is not trying to silence anybody.”