Political Quotes

“On the first Homeland Security Committee hearing, Professor Bowman, an expert in impeachments, made it clear that policy differences are not a legitimate basis for impeachment. There is no legitimate basis for impeachment, yet here we are. Why? It is because Republicans believe persecution is a substitute for policymaking. I guess when you can't legislate, you punish, right? Persecution has become the go-to strategy to score political points. We have seen that on Congresspersons Omar, Schiff, Tlaib, and even their own Speaker McCarthy, government employees, immigrants, and now Secretary Mayorkas. While great for political theater, persecution and punishment do not solve problems. Policy does. Nonetheless, Republicans are not interested in policy. They shut us down for presenting policy. They even killed a supplemental they had negotiated for months. They are just desperately deflecting attention from their failure to govern to secure their own empty reelections. If they were serious, then we would be debating policies to address the humanitarian crisis and the root causes of migration and fentanyl. Clearly they are not. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.”