Political Quotes

“Madam President, this week, news reports made public a May 2019 subpoena from the Justice Department. That subpoena requested financial records relating to Hunter Biden as part of the Department's criminal investigation into his activities. Notably, that subpoena also requested records relating to James Biden, Devon Archer, and Eric Schwerin. That subpoena sought records relating to companies that Senator Johnson and I discussed in our Biden report. If the reports are accurate, this subpoena is yet another stake in the heart of a totally unsubstantiated claim made by the liberal media and Democrats that the Grassley-Johnson report on Biden was Russia disinformation. Today, I come here to speak about a matter directly related to the recent news--specifically, the Biden Justice Department's failure to answer fundamental questions related to Hunter's criminal investigation. I have asked serious ethical questions of the Justice Department that the Department so far has refused to answer. In fact, the Department has actually publicly contradicted itself. Just one example of contradiction: On May 31, 2021, Senator Johnson and I wrote to Attorney General Garland. Our letter noted that Hunter Biden had a close association with Patrick Ho, an individual who is associated with the communist Chinese Government and its intelligence services.…”