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On the recordJanuary 12, 2021
I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is scary. This is frightening, what is happening. With less than 1 hour of debate, the Democrats bring a rule to the floor that says this: You can say anything you want about the President of the United States of America, no rules of decorum about what you say about the leader of our country. In that rule, they say: If you don't wear a mask, you could get fined, no regard to whether you have already had COVID, whether you have had the vaccination. Your mask slips down a little bit, you get fined, in a rule with no debate? In this rule, they say: To walk on the House floor, you have to go through a metal detector, a Member of the United States Congress walking on the floor to represent three quarters of a million people in our district? And fourth, the rule is for the bill that says we should tell the Vice President of the United States to work to remove the President of the United States. I have been here 14 years. I have never seen anything like this. And I do not know where this ends. I do not know where it ends, but it is dangerous where they are taking us. You couple this with what we are seeing with the cancel culture mob out there, I do not know where this takes us. I fear for the First Amendment. I fear for the Second Amendment. I fear for the Bill of Rights. I fear for the Constitution. Mr.…
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio
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Jan 12, 2021

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