Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Ohio. Madam Speaker, I rise to join my colleagues in voicing my great concern with the substance of this bill and the broken process by which it was produced. As we have all agreed, the issue of updating and reforming the way in which our communities are policed and strengthening the relationship between those brave Americans who serve us in uniform and the communities they serve are matters of critical importance. The people of this country expect and deserve the Members of this body to rise to this occasion and work together to find common ground on solutions that will preserve the civil liberties of all people and protect and honor the legitimacy of law enforcement. These are not mutually exclusive pursuits. Madam Speaker, at our hearing in the Committee on the Judiciary 2 weeks ago, you heard a little bit about that. It is interesting the lens by which we see this. Anybody who watched that, I think they could see that we all heard moving testimony. George Floyd's brother, Philonise, was there. He testified in a very moving way. Their family attorney was there, and a panel of experts that we all heard from. At that committee hearing, I, and all my Republican colleagues in the markup that followed, expressed our sincere desire to work together and find common ground with the Democrat majority to solve these problems. We all agreed on the core reform issues.…”