Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to thank my colleague from Utah for his commitment to the rule of law, his commitment to the Constitution, all of his efforts today and every day that he has been up here to make sure that the Senate follows the Constitution and doesn't set precedents that don't make any sense. And today is a horrible today. I also want to thank my colleague from Wisconsin for being such a voice on making sure that the public actually knows what is going on here. The information he puts out, the charts he uses, the information he has gives everybody an idea of what is actually going on. But, unfortunately, today, Democrats' assault on American democracy had a banner day. Democrats in the Senate said that impeachments by the U.S. House of Representatives don't matter anymore. You don't have to have a trial. They don't matter. According to what Democrats did today, we don't need to hold impeachment trials here in the Senate, ever. This is a horrible precedent. It is not what the Constitution envisioned. It doesn't matter if, for example, your Cabinet Secretary even instructed your Agency to ignore the law and not execute the laws of the United States. It doesn't matter if, by ordering an Agency to ignore the laws of the United States, Americans are murdered. They are. They have been. It doesn't matter if, by ordering an Agency to ignore the laws of the United States, deadly fentanyl pours into our communities and poisons our children and grandchildren.…”