Political Quotes

“Madam President, today I am going to highlight a new Hunter Biden record that I have recently made public. Before I get to that point, I am going to take a trip down memory lane--yes, down memory lane. On September 23, 2020, Senator Johnson and I released our ``Biden Report,'' as it has been called. That report focused on questionable financial transactions between the Biden family and foreign, government-linked individuals. On November 18, 2020, we released a supplemental to that report. I am going to read several statements from the media and my Democratic colleagues about our report. So, to start with, on September 23, 2020, a New York Times article by Nicholas Fandos described it in two ways: ``lack of meaningful new information'' and ``overlap with a Russian disinformation campaign.'' And the then-Democratic minority leader was quoted in the same article and said the report read ``as if Putin wrote it, not United States senators.'' A September 23, 2020, Salon article by Igor Derysh quoted a Democratic Senator saying that the report was the culmination of a ``sham investigation.'' In that article, the same Democratic Senator described our investigation as being ``rooted in disinformation'' from Russian operatives. Separately, a Democratic Senator also said about our report: ``Bottom line: The Johnson-Grassley investigation is baseless.…”