Political Quotes

“I thank my friend from Virginia (Mr. Griffith) for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I would note for the American people that the Republican majority is bringing before the body two important measures this week. The first measure is to ensure the integrity of our elections, to ensure that only American citizens can vote in American elections, a fairly commonsense principle, which enjoys 80 percent-plus approval among the American people, that would ensure in a straightforward way that noncitizens may not vote in our elections. It is that simple. The second measure we are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that we are actively debating right now in a committee that I am co- chairing, the Committee on the Judiciary, and I will go back to that committee forthwith, in which we are having witnesses before the Committee on the Judiciary discussing the extent to which we have judges that are taking unilateral action under what are called temporary restraining orders, or injunctions, to thwart the efforts of the administration's actions as a direct result of the election in November to carry out the agenda for which the President was elected. Mr. Speaker, this is a bipartisan problem that has been something where you have judges that will act unilaterally as a single-district judge, and the question is: What do we do about it? We have had Democrats who have said that we should change it. We have had Republicans who have said that we should change it.…”