Kevin Roberts: “as the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I take no pleasure in making these remarks, but the circumstances have…”

“as the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I take no pleasure in making these remarks, but the circumstances have given me absolutely no choice. Our distinguished majority leader recently came to this floor and declared that his minority colleagues--that would be us on this side of the aisle, Republicans--were ``addicted to Koch.'' To those who regularly watch our proceedings, however, it is clear who is suffering from this addiction. Practically every morning our leader starts our session by giving a speech personally attacking David and Charles Koch and their families. The only thing he seems to do more often than block Republican amendments is attack the Kochs. As distasteful as that is, it is apparently no longer sufficient. The problem with addiction, of course, is that as a tolerance develops, more and more of the drug is needed to satisfy the craving. So now we have learned that not only does the majority leader spend his mornings attacking the Kochs, but he spends his evenings doing so as well. Last night, the majority leader attended an event in the Capitol Visitor Center--the CVC in the Capitol building--to promote a movie attacking the Kochs.…”