Jim Jordan

For all the reasons we have talked about and what we should be focused on here, I would urge a ``no'' vote on the legislation and hope my colleagues will do the same. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I guess I always start from the premise I don't--in my mind bad guys aren't stupid. I mean, they are just bad.

If you are letting bad guys out and not having the type of bail we have traditionally had, you are not prosecuting violent criminals...

The most overheated political rhetoric in this area has been defund the police, that slogan.

Well, the Democrats have actually been very effective in electing people in causes with this dark money.

This reimagining term, this ruse is--it's a fairy dust term. Don't be fooled.

Because they're scared to death of being exposed or being connected with what many of their supporters and some of their colleagues... really want, and that's not reimagining police. That's defunding police.

We should--the same night that the President said they should fund the police, Representative Bush said, now we should defund the police.

What we need is more cops on the street, not disparaging cops who bust their tail.

When you enact dumb policies--imagine this--you get bad results.

When you defund the police, you probably shouldn't be surprised when you get more crime.

Democrats reimagined the border over the last year. We went from a secure border to complete chaos.

I don't think Democrats want to do the commonsense thing. They want to do what that video just talked about. They want to defund the police.

We went from stable prices to a 40-year high inflation rate.

We went from energy independence to the President of the United States begging OPEC to increase production.

Madam Chair, let me ask you this. I had called for you to invite the Attorney General and the FBI director to testify before this Subcommittee...

I've got a list of 21 cities that amount to $1.7 billion--billion with a B--that they took out of police department funds all over the country and we have seen the results of that.

I think that has the potential to chill speech.

They told us this virus didn't come from a lab. It was a gain-of-function and didn't involve our tax dollars.

I think it is an effort to intimidate and chill First Amendment free speech.

I think what the Federal Government needs to do is quit treating parents as domestic terrorists.

I mean, I remember Joe Biden telling us when he ran for the job that he had a plan.

I would just say that I hope we do have a unanimous vote and support this good piece of legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

They were spying on the sitting President of the United States.

No other American could get away with this.