Madeleine Dean

She asked her fellow Republicans not to ride to political victory on the four horseman of calumny, fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.

The indecency with which you have been treated by many people on this dais is staggering to me.

As a patriot, it makes me sick to think that our country played any role in the immoral and heartless decision to rip children from their mothers' arms for purely political purposes.

We know that we can't arrest our way through addiction and mental health problems.

I know those words don't go far enough.

Assisting Americans returning home, people who are still suffering from mass incarceration and its effect on their transition to freedom, even after their time is served, must remain a priority for our government.

Yes, certainly some states are experiencing backlogs, and we would imagine when the public health emergency ends...

Well, the statute requires that we use merit system personnel for certain aspects of state operations...

You take a look at Mr. McCarthy, how he is cowering, how he is hiding.

I call upon every one of the people who have been called in front of the 1/6 committee, the tech giants, Mr. McCarthy who famously or infamously, sadly, today and yesterday has resisted any willingness to come forward.

I hope they will deliver immediately.

I actually don’t think that’s true. It is frustrating to me, don’t get me wrong, that more people have not been held to account. But it is very difficult to undo a sea, a tidal wave of lies, and those who are complicit.

It`s strange that it would be coming from Mr.

What does that reveal about the participation of a desperate, sick man to try to hold on to power?

I think that`s what`s going to be the key. The public needs to know, evening hearings, prime-time hearings, to say, what was the truth? Shine a bright light of truth on the horror that was the sea of lies fomented by the former president…

We Democrats have to run. We have to run hard. And we have to make sure that we lift up the very thing that matters to America and to the longevity of democracy, and that is honesty and the truth.

We suffered the most extraordinary attack on our democracy and it must never happen again.

We have to run hard. And we have to make sure that we lift up the very thing that matters to America and to the longevity of democracy, and that is honesty and the truth.

We have to make sure that Mr. McCarthy, who is frankly weak and a bully, that`s what bullies actually are representative of, somebody who is weak, and Mr. Jordan who cares nothing for the truth and loves to be a bully.

We have to make sure that the truth comes out. The January 6 committee is doing extraordinary work, has interviewed more than 300 witnesses.

He is a serious performer. But he is not a serious legislator, and he is not a serious American. He doesn’t care about democracy.

I feel an extraordinary urgency. We saw how Don McGahn used the courts and delay, delay, delay to not allow us to hold him accountable.

What does Mr. Meadows want to be remembered for? Sadly, he`s going to be remembered for having the very body in which he served refer him for criminal prosecution.

There is an extraordinary urgency. I hope we will pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act.

I can tell you I personally feel the urgency.