Marc Molinaro: “Dear God, Mr. Speaker, my future former colleague is divorced from reality. He has manufactured his entire life to…”

“Dear God, Mr. Speaker, my future former colleague is divorced from reality. He has manufactured his entire life to defraud the voters of his district of an honest choice for a Member of Congress. He has lied to donors and to colleagues, taking advantage of election law, using campaign funds to personally benefit himself, and he has defamed not only his office but the institution itself. I was not elected, nor any of us, to defend a precedent. I was elected to defend the United States Constitution. My colleague, in the most truthful thing he said today, said, we don't want to be compared to him. My colleague is damn right. I do not want to be compared to him. The voters that sent me here expect an independent voice, expect us to use the rules of the House, and expect us to stand up for the very decency and laws of this country in protecting the Constitution. He has lost the right to serve in this House, and I will vote to expel him.”