Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1115) calling for the immediate release of Trevor Reed, a United States citizen who was unjustly sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1115 Whereas United States citizen Trevor Reed is a resident of Granbury, Texas, and a United States Marine Corps veteran; Whereas Trevor Reed traveled to Moscow to visit his girlfriend on May 16, 2019; Whereas Moscow's Police Service detained Trevor Reed on August 16, 2019; Whereas Trevor Reed was accused of grabbing the arm of the police officer driving the vehicle and elbowing another officer while en route to the police station, causing the vehicle to swerve and therefore endangering the lives of the police officers; Whereas the United States Embassy in Moscow has filed numerous diplomatic complaints with the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding Trevor Reed being denied consular access, communications, medical treatment, family visitations, and other violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations; Whereas Trevor Reed's defense team presented video evidence from traffic camera footage to the courts that disproves the police officers' statements of supposed endangerment and wrongdoing; Whereas Trevor Reed's defense team was denied access to additional video evidence from the police vehicle and police station that had the potential to prove his inno…”