"It is easier to demonize them when you are not there."
"we responded in trying to make sure that we could keep Members, staff, press, visitors as safe as possible."
"we gathered together in a relatively small room for 435 people."
"Let me just say, just because we have been doing something for 200 years doesn't mean we should continue the same old, same old."
"this representation that somehow proxy voting has made this a less productive Congress, I think, is demonstrably untrue."
"It does not help, when we don't have that person-to-person kind of interaction."
"We ought to be prepared for any eventuality, such as if a new variant or virus has emerged that is deadlier."
"What they care is Steny Hoyer stands up and expresses their views. That is what democracy is about."
"The voices of that district were heard."
"It would vest in the Treasury secretary the authority to raise the debt ceiling while still reserving to Congress the authority to overrule that decision if Congress ever wanted to exercise that autho..."
"I wish I shared that 100 percent certainty. One of the reasons why I started working on this seven years ago was because of my increasing fear that god forbid because of our increasing political dysfu..."