Jody Hice

It would be wrong for us, just out of the sake of doing something, to measure our personal compassion by how much of other people's constitutional rights we take from them.

We need to ensure that we have prosecutors who are tough on crime because that has been a problem in the name of COVID.

The purpose of the Second Amendment is clear. It is to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens.

Efforts to divert violent criminals out of the criminal justice system have failed.

The big lie in all of this is that there were no problems in this past election. This last election was filled with problems.

I am grateful to the gentleman for chairing the Freedom Caucus, and we are grateful for his leadership and for having this Special Order tonight. I want to take a moment in my opening remarks to say thank you to those Supreme Court…

I, likewise, am deeply grateful for your leadership in putting this together. Mr. Speaker, this is a call for our entire country to come together. This should not be something that is wrapped up in partisan politics. We are talking about…

simply us spending more money does not produce accountability elsewhere.

I am calling on them tonight--we are calling on them tonight to sign it. This is a national security issue. What is the problem here? It makes no sense to me. We have no Democrats that have signed on to this discharge petition. As you…

The IRS has not been trusted with the money they have been provided.

We have got to have answers.

the answer is, no, it is not ready.

they have not gotten their tax refunds, and they need that money.

more funding alone is far, far, far too simplistic of an answer.

my Democratic colleagues are all too willing to go along with this mindset.

I wholly believe that our current tax system is extremely outdated, complicated, and fully unsustainable.

For all we know, American tax dollars could actually be helping to fund Putin's war against Ukraine.

Estimates literally range into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and much of that is feared to have been lost to organized crime.

if elected, he would decertify the 2020 Georgia election results.

Improper payments have been a thorn in the side of our government probably forever.

accountability starts right here in this committee, Mr. Chairman. We have got to do our business of oversight and hold accountable these agencies that are not doing their job to protect the American tax dollars.

And it will tank our economy if we go that path and provide fewer choices as well.

The solution is not government takeover of the health care. It is returning power to the patients.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 173, nays 255, not voting 4, as…

This is yet another one that is but a farce. Here we have the Democrats trying to take a victory lap, and, quite frankly, they are not even in the race.