Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I introduced and marked up this bill with robust bipartisan support. I thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Chairman McCaul and the chair of the subcommittee, Chairwoman Salazar; my colleagues who just spoke, Representative Cherfilus- McCormick and Representative Kamlager-Dove; and others who worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Congress takes steps to address the crisis created by Haitian gangs. Mr. Speaker, the people of Haiti deserve to know which organizations and individuals support destabilizing criminal activity, including those who take advantage of desperate people who are already extremely vulnerable, trafficking them throughout the region and making financial gains at every stop along the way. Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow these elites, those who are paying the gangs, those who are incentivizing the gangs to create and do horrific things, to just keep walking about with impunity. We have to stand up and state that we are going to point them out and sanction them to give the people of Haiti an opportunity to feel that their government and their country can move forward. We can no longer just talk about having elections without having the gangs wiped out and away from Haiti because they would control the elections.…”