Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to talk about the ongoing investigation within the House Committee on Oversight and Reform among oversight Republicans. The minority--the Republicans--have requested several hearings, but unfortunately, Chairwoman Maloney and the majority House Democrats are uninterested or unwilling to comply. So we have taken it upon ourselves to inquire and pretty much open up investigations with our staff, with our investigators, and have taken data from our whistleblowers and different stakeholders with each investigation. We currently have caught a situation before the election, in California, where--with the CARES Act--there was a part called the Help America Vote Act that allocated funds for different States to educate voters on how to vote. In other words, to educate voters on where their precincts are and how to fill out an absentee ballot--things that are perfectly legal and things that the Federal Government should fund, and the State government should administer. Mr. Speaker, within the rules--something that a lot of times my friends on the other side of the aisle don't think apply to themselves--but in the rules of the Help America Vote Act, it specifically says what those Federal funds can and cannot be used for. One of the things that it specifically says the Federal funds cannot be used for is to get out the vote efforts.…”