Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the gentleman from Tennessee for offering this bill, as well as Chairman McCaul for bringing it to the floor. When the terrorists attacked in San Bernardino, many Americans said: What are we doing? When you find out that these folks are trafficking on the Internet and messaging, they say: Where is our FBI? Where are the services protecting us, and why aren't they doing everything they can? This is one thing they can do is offer testimonials from people who have been there who can give other people who might be interested in joining the truth. Yet there are some folks here who don't want to do that. They are interested in misrepresenting this bill. I want to remind everybody that this bill is the result of a bipartisan task force, a bipartisan task force, Member-led, that said we need to do exactly this, and unanimously move this forward to the full committee. They say it is unnecessary. Well, if it is unnecessary, why isn't Homeland Security doing this already? Why not? How long are they going to wait? They say that they offered amendments. Really? They offered amendments? They couldn't be bothered to answer the chairman's call when he said: Hey, can you collaborate with us on this so we have a good bill that everybody is involved in. They waited until the day of the markup, and then came in with a bunch of amendments and concerns.…”