Political Quotes

“Ben Shapiro says the ``facts don't care about your feelings,'' and they don't. And I will say this: The case law doesn't care about what your political position is. So if you want to talk about more case law, how about Trump v. Thompson, 2022, Justice Kavanaugh ruled: ``A former President must be able to successfully invoke the Presidential communications privilege for communications that occurred during his Presidency, even if the current President does not support the privilege claim.'' I have got more and more case law that I could produce. But let's just go back to the fact that this select committee is a partisan political hit job. If this really had a legitimate legislative function, then let me ask you this: Where are the subpoenas for the former House Sergeant at Arms and the former head of the D.C. National Guard? We haven't seen those subpoenas. What about questions and subpoenas that are designed to elicit information about why this Capitol was left unprepared and how to prevent it from happening again? That would be a legitimate legislative function. What we are seeing is this committee masquerading as if it is some kind of grand jury, which is wholly inappropriate and a violation of the separation of powers. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from the great State of Texas (Mr. Roy), to talk more about this.”