Political Quotes

“You have heard a lot of errant nonsense on the floor. But it must not go unrebutted. Ms. Bass, the chairperson of the Black Caucus and the chairperson of our subcommittee talked personally to the Republican leader, Mr. McCarthy, and got nowhere. The Committee on the Judiciary's staff talked to the Republican staff of the Committee on the Judiciary and got nowhere. The Republican amendments that Mr. Jordan advanced at the markup, his wonderful amendments, included antifa, the Seattle autonomous zone, stripping out the entire underlying legislation, defunding police departments, and adding a death penalty to antilynching legislation passed by the House. Of course, we wouldn't accept these amendments. They couldn't utter the phrase ``Black Lives Matter,'' and could barely engage the subject of police reform. Instead, their amendments--and I have given you about half of them just listed here--were errant nonsense, off-topic, dealing with imaginary things like antifa, and completely negating the entire purpose of the bill. They weren't interested in ``Black Lives Matter.'' They weren't interested in police reform. They were interested in pure demagoguery. Of course, we would not accept their amendments. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline). {time} 1400”