Political Quotes

“This is not a partisan investigation. We were created under House Resolution 503 after, I am afraid, the gentleman and his colleagues voted to thwart a totally bipartisan, independent outside commission made up of five Democrats and five Republicans with equal subpoena power simply because Donald Trump exercised his veto within the Republican Party; the same Donald Trump who calls the madman, mass murderer, Vladimir Putin, a genius, but we know we have some people echoing all of Trump's complicity with Vladimir Putin from the Georgia delegation back there. This is a bipartisan committee. It is the only committee I am aware of that has a Democratic chair in a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and a Republican vice chair, Ms. Cheney, who was the head of the GOP Conference. She was the head of the House Republican Conference, now the vice chair of this committee, and they call it a partisan exercise. The second point I need to make is that executive privilege must be asserted by the President. This one isn't even asserted by the former President. It is just somebody going in and saying, ``I have got an executive privilege.'' Is that really the precedent that my colleagues want to set, Madam Speaker? I mean, that is pretty astonishing if that is the position that they are taking. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon), my very distinguished colleague.”