Political Quotes

“Very good. This is what happened. Let's be clear. What the law does is that a group of folks can get over half a million dollars for records that were obtained. They were obtained as part of a legitimate criminal investigation. It is unconscionable, at a time when families across the country are feeling the squeeze and struggling to make ends meet, that such a self-serving, retroactive provision was included in legislation to fund the government. Let's be clear. No citizen of the United States gets this. No House Member gets this. This is just about Senators. It has all the appearances, certainly, of a cash grab. And if the American taxpayers who are going to have to foot this bill--let's be clear. No Senator should get special treatment or a special payday for legally obtained records. I want to stress that part. These records were obtained through a standard legal process as part of a legitimate criminal investigation related to January 6, involving authorized subpoenas of those Senators' potential involvement.”