Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas. So we addressed the Morton Memos in this House and voted to defund them in 2012. That was the first opportunity. The next opportunity was 2013. We addressed the Morton Memos in DACA and defunded them in this House of Representatives. That was also a bipartisan vote. Then August 1, 2014, we addressed DACA alone, defunded it, a vote of 216-192, another bipartisan vote, Mr. Speaker. Not to be completing it there, January 14, 2015, the House addressed, separately, DAPA and Morton Memos in an amendment to defund. That passed 237-190. And we picked up the DACA in a separate amendment, same day, and that passed 218-209. The House has voted time and time again. And if that was not enough for the voice of the House to weigh in on this, we came back again on June 3, 2015, another King amendment, and defunded the DOJ lawsuit we are talking about here now because we said: Step back, Mr. President; keep your oath of office. We stood up, and we defended ours. I will say this. Despite all of these votes, the government and Democrat Members claim Congress has acquiesced to the unconstitutional actions when the House has a clear voting history of opposing each step in the President's path to amnesty. So the House has now exhausted our remedies, with the exception of the omnibus spending bills, where everything gets packaged up in one vote. Except for that, the House has done all it can, Mr.…”