Political Quotes

“As we will be recessing tomorrow for the week, next week many of us will be celebrating America's Independence Day back home in our districts and throughout the country. Very few of us will be here. A few may, but we are rarely, if ever, on the floor of the U.S. House on Independence Day. It is obviously a day not just worth celebrating but that the Founders intended specifically for us to celebrate. I recall now 4 years ago in the summer of 2020 in the midst of some of the protests and riots and burning of buildings, tossing of statues and damaging of statues throughout the country in the summer of 2020, there was a lot of effort to tear down monuments and memorials. I took my staff, and I drove to Philadelphia on July 2. We were here late right up through that day. I think we finished voting on July 1. On July 2, I drove with my staff, I went to Philadelphia, and I went to Independence Hall and visited with the National Park Service there who were caring for Independence Hall. Fortunately, there was nobody at that point threatening to damage Independence Hall. There were some rumors and concerns. I recorded a video there and talked about the importance of Independence Hall. In that speech or in that video, when I recorded that, I pointed out that it wasn't the bricks and the mortar. It wasn't the building itself. It wasn't the structure.…”