Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues across the aisle are spending a great deal of time arguing against a piece of legislation they claim has no purpose, is meaningless, and only denounces the policies of the Biden administration. The policies of the Biden administration are due denouncing. There is little question that if this were a fire, then the executive would send the fire department. If it were a hurricane, the executive would send FEMA, but because this is a crisis of this President's making, he has chosen not to offer any response but to allow the crisis to continue. I remind my colleagues across the aisle that, yes, sure, the immigration system is broken. I wasn't here to break it. A couple of my colleagues have been here long enough to fix it several times over. The law as it relates to securing our border is clear: We are the legislature. We adopted the law. The President and the executive branch have the responsibility to execute the law. Instead, he has surrendered the southern border to drug cartels that are not only trafficking deadly drugs, synthetic opioids, and fentanyl but also trafficking human lives. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are like some sort of delusional Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to the crisis at the border. Pay no attention to the chaos in our cities. Pay no attention to the students taken out of schools so that cities like New York can shelter immigrants and migrants that they welcome.…”