On the recordMay 18, 2022
The majority leader of the House just said we don't condone violence by anyone. That statement is just not accurate. The entire summer of 2020, folks in the Democratic Party said rioters and looters were peaceful protestors. Republicans have condemned violence every time it happened. When it happened on January 6, we said it was wrong. When it happened in the summer of 2020, we said it was wrong, but they didn't. The Democratic chair of the Financial Services Committee said to the rioters and looters that summer ``get more confrontational.'' The Vice President of the United States supported the effort to raise money to bail those rioters and looters out of jail. We should condemn all violence, and we should prosecute people who commit crimes. We shouldn't be raising bail money to get them out of jail, and we shouldn't be encouraging with the comments people make as happened all that summer from the Democrats and from the left. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
