Productivity by a handful is not the people's House.
We all take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.
I believe my constituents sent me here to vote for them, and I believe that.
We have an obligation to defend the Constitution.
Proxy voting has been a disaster that has torn this institution apart, and I will continue to believe that because I have witnessed it, and ...
That is disenfranchising and that it is causing distrust in the institution.
That is a very big statement. That is a debatable statement, one we ought to be debating.
We break down the human interactions when we blow up the whole point of us coming together as Congress.
I think if you read the text of the Constitution, words like 'meeting,' 'assemble,' 'attendance,' 'present,' 'absent,' 'recess,' 'sitting,' ...
I think it is just about the truth. Because when you proxy vote...you have to sign a piece of paper that says, I am unable to physically att...
How can you maintain the integrity of the institution if you are institutionalizing lies?