Political Quotes

“we will be voting soon on confirmation of Ms. Lynch to be the Attorney General of the United States of America. That office is a part of the President's Cabinet, but it also is the office of the chief law officer for America. The Attorney General is the top official in our government who is required to adhere to the law, even to the point of telling the President `no' if he gets it in his head, as Presidents sometimes do, to do something that violates the law--just as corporate lawyers sometimes do for the CEO of corporations. `Mr. President, you can't do this. This is wrong. Don't do this.' Some Attorneys General have been known to resign before they would carry out policies that violate the law. We are deeply concerned in this country about the President's Executive amnesty--the unlawfulness of it, the breadth of it, and the arrogance of it to the point that it is a direct assault on congressional power and legitimacy, a direct attack on laws passed by the People's representatives; we have a big problem. Ms. Lynch has said flat-out that she supports those policies and is committed to defending them in court against any complaint about them. I think Congress has a real role here. We do not have to confirm someone to the highest law enforcement position in America if that person is publicly committed to denigrating Congress, violating the laws of Congress, or violating even the wishes of Congress and the American people. We do not have to confirm anybody.…”