Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for her leadership and my good friend from Oklahoma as well. My friend from Oklahoma may be, in fact, accurate to the extent that the 25th Amendment stands on its own as actions that the Vice President will take. But we are a coequal branch of government, and Mr. Raskin's resolution is an appropriate resolution because we have a responsibility to govern and to protect the American people. So this resolution is not in violation of the Constitution, because it is the Congress calling upon the Vice President to reflect on January 6, a day in infamy, to reflect the fact that there were six people who died, that we lost two precious law enforcement Capitol Hill Police, their injuries in many ways attributable to this, some in different ways than others, and we lost Americans. Clearly, it is a long chain of events that goes back to the President of the United States. The President, when a duly announced election came about on November 6, 2020, proceeded to declare that it had been stolen and continued to stoke the fires of his believers to begin to plan some kind of attack, because he kept saying, ``Come to Washington. I will see you there.'' Then, of course, as time went on, I valued the President's right to the courts, of which he went, but he did not find that to be a solution for him. So House Resolution 21 is the Congress speaking, and we have every right, as a coequal branch, to speak. Why? The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”