"I want to ask you about the Hatch Act, because I've got 65,000 constituents who are Federal employees."
"If you act in contempt of the American people and Congress, we will find you in contempt."
"If a false statement has been made at the hearing about a fellow Member of Congress, can it be corrected?"
"I believe that the rule states that we cannot disparage and defame other Members of Congress."
"Disenfranchisement used to be relatively simple. In the first century, the law simply said that African Americans couldn't vote."
"The second Reconstruction, which was the modern civil rights movement, targeted all of those practices with the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
"The States did not create the Union. We, the people, created the Union in the Constitution."
"If we allow them to go ahead and impose another disenfranchising mechanism, and they finally get to court 6 months or 8 months or 12 months later, it is too late to do anything."
"This legislation is of essential importance to the American people, and I rise in opposition to the gentleman from Illinois's amendment."
"The Constitution says in the Guarantee Clause that Congress must guarantee to every State a republican form of government."
"the House of Representatives has not been hacked, at least yet, directly by the GRU and by the agents of Vladimir Putin."