On the recordJuly 25, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the Republicans' desperate attempt to, yet again, use the official business of the House of Representatives to do the partisan, political bidding of Donald Trump. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have spent most of this Congress wasting our time and taxpayer money on a bogus sham impeachment investigation of President Biden that yielded no evidence of wrongdoing, much less any high crime or misdemeanor. It was obvious that that phony effort was solely designed to provide election fodder for Trump in advance of November's election, and recently the chairman of the committee overseeing that investigation even admitted as much. Now that President Biden has selflessly and patriotically passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are scrambling to help Donald Trump's electoral chances by using our time here today on a blatantly false resolution about Vice President Harris. The title of this resolution is ``Strongly condemning the Biden administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris's, failure to secure the United States border.'' There is one problem. There is no such thing as a border czar, nor was Vice President Harris ever named the border czar. The entire premise of this resolution is simply false.…





