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On the recordJuly 24, 2024
I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, if you want to talk about division, I have got a whole list of divisive quotes from my friends across the aisle. It starts at the very top. Just days before what happened in Pennsylvania, President Biden said that we need to put a bull's-eye on President Trump. That was President Biden. Former Speaker Pelosi said: ``You have to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch--for the children.'' Senator Jon Tester: ``I don't think, even States where Donald Trump won big, that it does you any good running away from Donald Trump. I think you need to go back and punch him in the face.'' That was a quote from Jon Tester. Here is Joe Biden again: ``I said if I were in high school, I would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'' Congresswoman Maxine Waters said this: ``And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take out Trump tonight.'' For the Vice President, she too is engaged in some divisive rhetoric. When asked in April 2018: If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be? Do you know how the Vice President responded? She said: Does one of us have to come out alive? Save me the rhetoric on divisiveness. I think the American people know where the divisive language is coming from.…
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Guy Reschenthaler
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Jul 24, 2024

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