Political Quotes

“I wish to explain why the House should consider this privileged resolution. Mr. Speaker, Members of Congress take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and protect the American people. The House majority and its leadership have abandoned that duty. It is imperative that the House vote to release the Democratic memo to set the record straight on Republicans' attempts to undermine the Russian investigation. It is also important to note that who knows what they have next. The majority's decision to release highly classified and distorted intelligence is profoundly dangerous and gives a bouquet to Putin. As the Department of Justice warned, the public release of the memo is an unprecedented action and extraordinarily reckless. The FBI also expressed grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. The memo prepared by the House Intelligence Committee's Democrats must be expeditiously released after review and appropriate redaction of sources and methods by law enforcement officials: the Justice Department, the intelligence community. The President must declassify the memo without any redactions based on any political considerations. This is an urgent matter of national security and intelligence. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has heard arguments on the question of order. The Chair is prepared to rule.…”