Political Quotes

“Last week, we passed a resolution dismissing the last House election contest of the 2020 cycle, in the 14th District of Illinois. Before this resolution came to the floor, the Committee on House Administration approved it with unanimous bipartisan support. I am incredibly honored that my community chose me to represent them in Congress again, and I look forward to a productive term. But I am not here to take a victory lap. This is an important moment, not because of which candidate won, but because the constitutional rights of my constituents were upheld, despite my opponent's efforts to disenfranchise the very people he sought to represent. Much like the previous President, my opponent ignored voters' voices by declaring himself the winner days before the results were in. Once the votes had been tallied, he again joined the former President in making baseless allegations of fraud and conspiracy. After a careful consideration of the merits of his case, the committee found that my opponent's many arguments about supposed irregularities failed to add up to a credible claim to the result he wanted. Exhibiting the utmost disrespect for his own would-be constituents, he even went so far as to attempt to invalidate thousands of ballots, under a technicality that the Illinois Supreme Court had already deemed invalid under both the State and Federal Constitutions.…”