Political Quotes

“I would. If you don't mind, Senator Shaheen, I will just go through the timeline once again because I think it is important. In December of 2019, Congress passed the sanctions bill that you and Senator Cruz championed. That stops Allseas, the private company, from constructing the pipeline. They pull back, but immediately Russia starts retrofitting their own ships, and we knew it. We saw it. This wasn't secret. That happens from the beginning of 2020, and by May of 2020, those ships are on their way. From May until October, they are caught up in permitting, but it is just a matter of time. Everybody knows those ships are eventually going to start laying down pipe. By October of 2020, before Joe Biden is elected President, those ships are back doing construction. In October, November, December, all throughout the end of 2020, those ships are back rebuilding the pipeline, such that on January 19, the last day of Trump's Presidency, 95 percent of the pipeline--somewhere around 95 percent of the pipeline--is done. Then literally walking out the door, Donald Trump lays down a sanction on one company and one ship that the company owns. All through 2020, there was no blockade of State Department nominees, no grinding to a halt of Senate nominations business to try to prompt the President to change his mind. All of that magically starts happening when Joe Biden is President, when 95 percent of the pipeline is done.…”