Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. This President doesn't take responsibility for anything other than good things. If anything bad happens, this President does not take responsibility. He points to somebody else. What I interrupted the gentleman on was he says, ``the scientists.'' Redfield is a scientist. He is a medical doctor. He is the head of the CDC. He made a comment, his best judgment as to when vaccines were going to be available, widely available. The President contradicted him on both points he made just a few days ago, as he has done with Fauci, as he has done with Hahn, as he has done with others. My confidence in those three companies is that they will come to the referee and will say: ``Is this ready to go?'' The referee, in this case the FDA, that the gentleman says is so respected has that responsibility. What I don't have confidence in, what I think so many of the American people don't have confidence in, is they will get a call from the White House that says: ``This is the judgment you are going to make.'' We have seen, over and over and over again, decisions modified because of White House direction. In fact, Caputo was there for exactly that reason at HHS, not CDC, but overseeing CDC. I tell my friend, Madam Speaker, yes, we need to have confidence, but we need to be truthful with them. We need to tell them the truth. We need to take direction from the experts, not substitute our judgment. The gentleman talks about hydroxychloroquine.…”