Political Quotes

“I will not mention that these two guys happen to be known publicly. They are a couple of twins who are good buddies of mine and their birthday is today. But I sit here, and I say on April 7, it was a year ago almost to the day--I would have to go look at the date of the filing of our discharge petition down at the desk here in the Chamber--that I filed on behalf of us who wanted to do it. Our friend Yvette Herrell had legislation to require the enforcement of title 42, the health provision that allows you to turn people away because of communicable diseases which, of course, we are dealing with during COVID. She had a bill that she filed last February. Now, keep in mind, that was only a month into the administration. But we knew full well what was happening because immigrants were showing up to the border with Joe Biden T-shirts and with ``thank you to President Joe Biden'' shirts. So we knew what was coming. We knew that the Members of this Chamber and Democrat friends in the administration would say: Oh, well, I don't know if we need to use title 42 enforcement. I don't know if we need to use migrant protection protocols and return to Mexico, because, frankly, we knew they would be fine with a flood across our border.”