Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Oregon for yielding. Our country continues to suffer under the many crises created by the Biden administration and Democrat policies; you know, the border crisis, the crime crisis, the inflation crisis, the energy crisis. And yet, the priority of this Congress now turns to expanding access to addictive, behavior-altering, recreational drugs at a time when our country is also experiencing increased addiction, depression, and suicide. What is worse, we want to target those individuals and communities who are historically most impacted by the harm of illegal drugs and provide Federal funding to help enable criminals to open and operate now legal drug businesses. We have rising violent crime in Democrat-run cities across the country. More drug use won't help that. We had 100,000 Americans die of overdoses last year, the leading cause of death in Americans ages 18 to 45. More drug use won't help that. Our government, schools, and our education systems are failing us. More drug use won't help that. But, in fact, this legislation has no prohibitions on edible forms of marijuana, flavored vape products, or other efforts to target, specifically, teens and young people. Meanwhile, we have surrendered operational control of our southern border to the Mexican crime cartels, and we have got fentanyl and other dangerous drugs streaming into our country at historic levels because of this President's open border policies.…”