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Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the open Southern border poses a huge security risk to our nation – his words – and that they have tracked a significant increase in crime, criminal cartel activity and gang-related cartels because of this crisis.
Mr. Speaker:
I opposed the original version of this resolution, not to defend Mr. Schiff’s lies, but to defend the process that exposed those lies. We must never punish speech in this House – only acts. The only way to separate truth from falsehoods or wisdom from folly is free and open debate. And we must never impose excessive fines that would effectively replace the constitutional 2/3 vote for expulsion with a simple majority.
This new version removes the fine and focuses instead on specific acts: most particularly the abuse of his position as Intelligence Chairman by implying he had access to classified information that did not exist; and his placement into the Congressional Record of the Steele dossier that he knew, or should have known, was false.
The Russia collusion hoax is the single dirtiest political trick in the history of American politics. We now know that it was entirely concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign and ruthlessly used by partisans in the FBI to affect the 2016 election and then to undermine the legitimately elected president of the United States. Mr. Schiff’s active role in promoting this hoax is disgraceful and damning. But that is not the question before us. The question before us is whether a member of Congress should be censored and fined for speech, even outlandish speech, during the public policy debate. We have gone much too far down this road and it is time we turned back.
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