OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015

Floor Speech

Date: March 3, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Executive Branch

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, thank you to my friend from Kentucky.

All right, for my friends on the left, you are going to support this
unconstitutional expansion of power. When there is a Republican
President, are you going to sit there and continue to applaud, saying,
``Yes, we did not support the separation of powers when we had the
chance'' and look the other way?

One of my heartbreaks here is I believe there were creative things we
could have done, but we are completely dearth of the willingness to
try.

Mr. Speaker, this is about trying to defend the U.S. Constitution
that we all raised our hands to uphold, and yet are we going to allow a
vote to go forward to walk away from that fight?

This should break everyone's heart in this body.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT


Source
arrow_upward