Jackie Speier: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. My heart is racing right now, and I am trembling, in part because I am recalling…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. My heart is racing right now, and I am trembling, in part because I am recalling what happened to me on January 6, when I was in that gallery and had to climb around the other side and then lie there on the floor. Then, I heard a shot ring out, and it took me back over 40 years ago, lying on an airstrip in Guyana about to lose my life. I thought, at that moment: My God, I survived Guyana, but I am not going to survive this, in the house of democracy in the country in which I was born. For the Members on the other side of the aisle to call this political, let me remind you, it was political because the President of the United States at the time thought it was fun and an act of great patriotism to come up here and try to overturn the election. So, you may call it political; it was political. But we are going to find out why it happened, and we are going to make sure it never happens again. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their remarks to the Chair.”