Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I just admonished some people. This is a serious issue of how the House operates and how your time is respected. We have proxies. We are going to keep proxies. We can debate that, but the fact of the matter is, as long as we have proxies, we are going to have to take into consideration proxies. But we don't have to simply waste time by people not showing up, proxy or not. That is my whole point, so that we can respect one another's time, respect the work of this institution, respect the work of our committees. {time} 1230 I would urge--and I will yield again--I would urge us to respect one another, respect our time, and respect the constraints of voting within a timeframe, whether it is 15 minutes or 5 minutes. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy). Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, if we look in the Chamber right now, we have a large number of people here, not one person wearing a mask--all right, three or four--and you can continue to wear your mask to vote in person. I don't see how you are going to do a 5-minute vote with proxies. I understand the lecture you are giving to everybody, but on this side of the aisle we will be here, we will vote, and we would gladly like to do it the same way every other Congress has done it in history, to be here and do the job like we expect the American people to do. And we won't break until the proxies are done.”