Louise Slaughter: “I yield myself such time as I may consume in order to respond to the gentleman. Now, I am sure if Members of Congress…”

“I yield myself such time as I may consume in order to respond to the gentleman. Now, I am sure if Members of Congress were to walk down in front of the White House and threaten people who were trying to go inside and interfere with the going in and going out of the White House of people on their regular business, if they were to keep them up all night in the White House, calling and making protests, follow them home, take down their license plate numbers on their cars, if they were to follow the children of persons who worked at the White House, harassing them in school, if they were to make death threats against the persons in the White House and if they were to physically obstruct persons from going in and out of the White House of the United States, those Members of Congress who are also a middle American, would certainly expect to receive the full penalty of the law. Peaceful demonstrators in front of the White House, peaceful demonstrators in front of a clinic, peaceful demonstrators in front of a synagogue, peaceful demonstrators in front of any religious institution, are not going to be thrown into jail for a year and a half as the previous speaker had indicated.”