Brad Wenstrup

Politics has no place in taking care of people. That's the bottom line.

It's not the critic who counts but the man in the arena.

I am pleased that you are doing it as I have said. I mean, this is fantastic, probably long overdue.

We do not want someone to be able to take away the voice of Americans here in this body, you know. We are a democratic republic.

I think what you see in this Subcommittee and I think what you see in the House Admin Committee, you see that we can work together to deliver solutions to the American public.

I am extremely grateful to you for coming to me.

I consider not having something in place a national security threat.

If we had hit that truck in a different way, we would have derailed.

We saw, with COVID, that those were reasons for people to be affected and not necessarily live.

I have always thought that, out of everything bad that happens, there is a chance to do something good...

Let us do it now because we have to.

Hope is wonderful, but it is not a plan. Prayer is great, but it is not a plan.

I am really proud to join Representatives Kilmer, Timmons, Cleaver in leading a proposed constitutional amendment...

There are too many what-if's in a situation like this because Congress has not fully considered the implications of a mass casualty event affecting Members.

This was a clear assassination attempt, and he decided to use murder or assassination as a tool for a political change.

John Lewis, a colleague, great American, he used to say 'good trouble.' He did not have this in mind.

This is really important because not only, as it has been mentioned, can we take away the incentive for someone to act in a nefarious way, we are going to preserve the idea that all Americans will have a voice here in Congress virtually at…

It is incredibly serious, and it is serious and so important for the country.

If it takes a Committee to appoint a Committee to make a study to eventually get something done, let us do it now.

There are some who believe that this issue needs more study. Personally I do not think that.

The status quo also creates a perverse incentive for political violence through targeted killings designed to switch the majority party in the House.

I am convinced that there are both constitutional and operational insufficiencies with the status quo.

No threats and no intimidation tactics will change the facts.

The buck is supposed to stop with you in your state, and I'm deeply skeptical of the abdication of responsibility onto others.