Political Quotes

“I am so happy that the gentlewoman from Colorado organized this effort tonight. We need to be speaking about it, and of course, I would call on our friends from this side of the aisle. It is interesting that we are standing on this side of the aisle. I mean, thank goodness somebody is willing to stand over here and defend the country. Mr. Speaker, I call on my Democrat colleagues to start answering some questions and start defending their country from this invasion. But if the gentleman doesn't know this, if you do a quick calculation--this isn't Congressman Perry, Congresswoman Boebert, Congressman Roy, any of us up here. This is DHS. The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for 18,000 crossings a day, 18,000 people coming across the border illegally each day. Now, I don't know, for each one of you, the size of your town where you come from, but I suspect 18,000 in any town would make a pretty big dent unless you are talking about one of the major cities like Los Angeles or something like that. Even so, 18,000 a day, Mr. Speaker, that is over 6\1/2\ million people, if we keep that rate up, 6\1/2\ million people in 1 year illegally coming to our country. Congressman Norman or Congresswoman Boebert, could your business sustain something like that?”