Political Quotes

“Chairman Nadler, ranking members, this is an important piece of legislation. How do I know that? Because the people have told us that. Every time they have had the opportunity to vote in America, they have voted to do this. They know that filling our prisons and creating criminal records for people who use marijuana--and knowing full well that if they are people of color, the possibilities of adverse consequences are geometrically greater. I tell my colleagues, I am tired of hearing this argument that, ``Oh, my goodness, we are doing this. We ought to be doing something else.'' We are all working on issues of great concern not only to us but to the global community: on the war in Ukraine; on the criminal activities that Putin is subjecting us to; on inflation, a critical problem for all of our people. We are working on that. We are having trouble getting some legislation in the Senate that will bring down inflation and bring down costs for the American people--not on our side of the aisle. So, when I hear this argument, ``Oh, we ought to be doing this. We ought to be doing that. We ought to be doing the other,'' this is an important, fair piece of legislation, fair for the American people. I thank Chairman Nadler. I thank the Judiciary Committee. I thank Members on my side of the aisle. I thank Barbara Lee, who is walking down the aisle right now, who has worked so hard on this. Why did she work so hard on it?…”