Political Quotes

“The gentleman talks a lot about law enforcement, correctly so. We ought to honor those who protect us and who put their life and limb at risk daily to do so. We ought to honor them whether they are ICE agents, whether they are Border Patrol agents, whether they are DIA agents, whether they are members of the Armed Forces, whether they are members of the sheriff's departments or police departments in our various communities around the country. We ought to have compassion for those who are victims whom they are protecting and compassion for those whom we lose in the performance of their law enforcement duties. There is not a Member of Congress who has been at more memorial services for law enforcement officers that we have lost through the centuries than I have, period. Yesterday's vote was because of the patently political nature of the resolution that was offered. The majority leader says he wanted to offer a bill of one of our Members who suggested the elimination of ICE--small number. And that Member, apparently, according to the majority leader, told him: Look, I am going to vote ``no'' on that if you bring it to the floor, obviously trying to raise a point about wanting to stop the policies and practices--not the ICE agency, but the policies and practices of ripping, literally ripping children from the arms of their fathers and mothers and estranging them at places that neither knew where the other was.…”