Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, the American people want us to be working together to solve our challenges at the border. We could be working together to vote on President Biden's proposal for $14 billion of funding that would add over 1,000 Border Patrol officers. We could be working with the Senate on real immigration reform that Republicans claimed they wanted until Donald Trump told them that they didn't, but instead we are wasting time and energy on an impeachment with no legal basis just because it is what Donald Trump wants. The facts are this: Congress has allocated funding for 34,000 beds at detention centers. The average daily census last year was 37,000. The centers are full, and so the Secretary, under the law, uses his legal discretion to decide who to detain and who to release--the same legal discretion that all of his predecessors have used. In the last 2 years of the Trump administration, 52 percent of migrants were released, nearly a million people, and I did not hear my House Republican colleagues calling to impeach that Homeland Security Secretary. No. This is about one thing--politics. There are no high crimes, no misdemeanors, no treason, no bribery. I would remind my colleagues, our oath is to the Constitution, not to Donald Trump.”