Political Quotes

“I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining for us on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cicilline). The gentleman from Massachusetts has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I encourage all Members here today to read today's Washington Post editorial questioning Leader McCarthy's political courage in opposing this bill and calling for him to testify under oath about his eyewitness experience of the violence and former President Trump's apparent indifference to it. The editorial also criticizes his false equivalence of Black Lives Matter protests to the Capitol invasion and his minimization of the insurrection's significance, which only encourages the lies on which it is based. I include that article in the Record. [From the Washington Post, May 18, 2021] Opinion: Kevin McCarthy Plumbs New Depths of Political Cowardice (Opinion by the Editorial Board) Democratic and Republican negotiators agreed last week to create a high-level, expert commission with subpoena power to conduct an examination of the Jan. 6 Capitol invasion, one of the lowest moments in U.S. history. But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday threw his negotiators under the bus, condemning the compromise and vowing to oppose the bill creating the commission when it comes to a House vote Wednesday.…”