Political Quotes

Sean Reyes: “I would ask my colleagues that are so intent on protecting the neighborhoods, does that mean that they are willing to…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 1998
I would ask my colleagues that are so intent on protecting the neighborhoods, does that mean that they are willing to deploy United States military resources to the neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. and Florida and Kansas and Illinois and the areas that they represent? I think not. We cannot afford it. We should not subject neighborhoods to that kind of military presence. Yet that is the very thing that they are proposing in the context of the amendment that is offered that they are opposed to a perfecting amendment that would preclude border neighborhoods from seeing and having to deal with troops on our borders.
Said by
Sean Reyes
Utah

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of deploying military troops to neighborhoods during a debate on an amendment.

Share

More from Sean Reyes

May 9, 2023

Would that result in people being discriminated against, say, for a place on a board of directors based on political viewpoint?

congress.gov
Mar 11, 2008

Mr. Speaker, this is a critical bill for the intelligence community. If you vote to sustain this veto, you are voting for torture with the President. I believe we should stand with the men and women of the community and override the…

govinfo.gov
Oct 27, 2015

I do not. I think clear constitutional precedent is delegated power, and well within the purview.

congress.gov
Oct 27, 2015

Clearly, there are politics all around, and to pretend that there is not because it is the executive branch exercising its prerogative is, I think, naive.

congress.gov

Other voices in this conversation