Jackie Speier actually said...

"I encourage our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to do so and to have an open debate on this issue that impacts our brave men and women who serve this great Nation."

"The lack of moral prioritization by this administration is galling."

"There is no justification for this Court to read exemptions into the act beyond those provided by Congress. If the act is to be altered, then it is a function for the same body that adopted it."

"It is wrong that it has gone on as long as it has without the Congress of the United States putting their big-people britches on."