Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I thank Chairwoman Lofgren for her incredible work. Nobody has done more in this Congress to protect our democracy and lift up the voices of everyday Americans than Zoe Lofgren, so I thank her for yielding. The measure of partisanship here is not whether the Republicans have refused to get on this and it is a Democratic bill. That is not how you measure partisanship, because that is an easy maneuver. You decide: None of us will get on the bill. It will be all Democrats that are supporting it or voting for it, and then we can say it is a partisan bill. The measure of whether something is partisan or not is to go out and talk to the people in the country. And this is one of the most bipartisan bills you could possibly put together, judged by what people out in the country want to see. Republicans, Independents, Democrats coming off of the 2016 election said to this Congress: ``Protect our house.'' Not this House, the United States of America. ``Protect our elections from foreign interference.'' That wasn't just coming from Democrats. That wasn't a partisan voice out in the wilderness. That was everybody saying it, including Republicans and Independents. So the fact that the Republicans don't want to get on a bill that Americans want to see doesn't make the bill partisan. It means that Republicans are not listening carefully enough to what the American people want to see.…”