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Zoe Lofgren

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Zoe Ellen Lofgren is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 19th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Lofgren has served in Congress since January 6, 1999, making her one of the longest-serving members of the House. Throughout her tenure, she has focused on various issues, including trade, technology, and immigration reform. Lofgren has been an advocate for American jobs and has emphasized the importance of international trade, particularly with China.

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Sep 29, 2022

Mr. Halpern did, indeed, work in the House of Representatives. He was on the Republican staff, and I think it is meaningful that the chair and ranking member of the House Administration Committee, Democrat and Republican, feel the same…

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Sep 29, 2022

Language making this correction has passed the House twice this Congress in other legislation, and it should be enacted into law. The Senate passed this bill by unanimous consent in March, and passing it in the House today will ensure that…

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Sep 29, 2022

We have agreement on this bill from the Senate, and that is a good thing. I should note that we have had discussions, primarily at a staff level, on the election observer measure mentioned by the ranking member and Mr. Steil. We continue…

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Sep 29, 2022

Reclaiming my time. My staff indicates that there have been discussions. Obviously, that was at a staff level. But I have outlined what the concerns are, and I would at this point like to close so that we can let the House get to its other…

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Sep 28, 2022

Today, I reluctantly rise in opposition to this rule and will vote ``no.'' I am a supporter of all three bills covered by this rule as they were originally introduced. I am even the cosponsor of Representative Neguse's bill to increase…

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Sep 21, 2022

I was very happy to get that support from the organization, from The Wall Street Journal, but we also got kudos from Cato, that well-known conservative institution, that they say this bill is actually more conservative and originalist as…

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Sep 21, 2022

I think it is important to talk about the January 6th Select Committee. Since its creation more than a year ago, the select committee has given substantial attention to the issues related to the Electoral Count Act and its need for reform…

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Sep 21, 2022

May I inquire how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. McCollum). The gentlewoman has 9\1/4\ minutes remaining.

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Sep 21, 2022

The January 6th Committee has as its obligation to recommend legislative changes that would make the country safer. We have done that. I will say that the partisan split in the House Administration Committee has always been six majority…

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Sep 21, 2022

Just a correction. What I actually said in the Rules Committee is I hope we pass this bill. The Senate will pass a bill. They are doing a markup in the Rules Committee next week. If they are different, there is generally a conference…

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Sep 21, 2022

On January 6, the President had whipped up a mob, told them that the Vice President could overturn the election, and a majority of the Republicans in this House voted to reject the decision made by American voters as reflected in the…

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Sep 21, 2022

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Cheney), the vice chair of the January 6th Select Committee.

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Sep 21, 2022

The bill makes it crystal clear that, despite what Trump might say, the vice president does not have the power to reject the will of the people.

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Sep 14, 2022

There`s text, there`s emails, there`s radio track. There`s all kinds of information, teams meetings.

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Sep 9, 2022

So not only was there the big lie, there was the big rip-off.

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Sep 9, 2022

We found evidence that the Trump campaign and its surrogates misled donors as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for.

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Sep 8, 2022

not only was there the big lie, there was also the big rip-off.

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Sep 4, 2022

We will have at least one public hearing in September. My guess is -- this isn`t a formal announcement -- that it`s going to be very tough to get the entire report done by the end of October. But we will have some key findings.

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Aug 29, 2022

The big lie was also a big rip off.

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Aug 25, 2022

Mr. Stirewalt, you were at the decision deaths at Fox News on election night. And you called Arizona early for President Biden, which was controversial.

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Aug 24, 2022

We’re also working on that. And Liz Cheney, and I have just about finished our work on our proposal for the Electoral Count Act, so that people intend on overturning our democracy will have a harder time with their mischief in the future.

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Aug 24, 2022

The Trump campaign use these false claims of election fraud to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who were told their donations are for the legal fight in the courts. But the Trump campaign didn`t use the money for that…

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Aug 24, 2022

If we lose our democracy, we won’t be able to deal with any of that.

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Aug 24, 2022

Democracy was hanging by a thread on January 6 and that thread is not yet over.

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Aug 10, 2022

I do very much. So we've already seen it the incident in Ohio, some of these right-wing online platforms, people are talking about violence, just as they did before January 6.

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