Political Quotes

“I thank my friend, the gentleman from Virginia, for bringing this bill to the floor and for his leadership on Mrs. Blackburn's legislation. Mr. Speaker, if you go back and look at DACA in 2012, when it was issued as an executive order, it was an example of President Obama's executive overreach. Some want to make this a partisan issue, yet, Mr. Speaker, more than a dozen times, the United States Supreme Court has issued 9-0 rulings that President Obama has overreached his executive authority. That is not a 5-4 decision. That is 9-0. Ruth Bader Ginsburg recognized more than a dozen times this President has overreached his executive authority. {time} 2100 Mr. Speaker, why is this DACA ruling so dangerous? This has been the magnet that has led to the flood of people coming across our border. This crisis at the border is partially responsible to the DACA ruling. We have got to stop having this kind of message go out that has led not only to a flood of people coming across our border, but has led to and can be responsible for the human trafficking that is going on. There are so many devastating things that this has done. We have got to stop this overreach.”