Political Quotes

“To my friends Mrs. Lesko and Mr. Woodall from the Rules Committee, first, I remind my friend from Arizona that we are actually working on legislation that is bipartisan in nature and something that is tremendously serious that has to be addressed. Again, I would quote from the CNBC article of October 17, where it talked about these two cronies of Rudy Giuliani: ``Parnas and Fruman face other charges in the indictment, which alleges they created a shell company and then used it to donate to political committees, including a pro-Trump super-PAC, while concealing that they were the ones making the donations.'' So here we have, on the political side, the reason for this particular bill. There is a 36-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan at 650 Fifth Avenue, and I am reciting from an op-ed in The Washington Post, dated September 20, 2019: ``It is home to a Nike flagship store and previously housed the corporate offices of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. It was also secretly owned by the Iranian Government for almost 20 years. By running its ownership stake in the building through an anonymous front company, the Iranian regime took advantage of the fact that firms in the United States are not legally required to disclose who ultimately profits from and controls them.'' It goes on to say: ``The story of 650 Fifth Avenue is not anomalous.…”