• 5 months ago
During debate on the House floor, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) spoke in opposition to a resolution that would condemn Vice President Kamala Harris for her role on the border.

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00:00I rise today to address the Republicans' desperate attempt to, yet again, use the official business
00:13of the House of Representatives to do the partisan political bidding of Donald Trump.
00:19My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have spent most of this Congress wasting our
00:23time and taxpayer money on a bogus sham impeachment investigation of President Biden that yielded
00:30no evidence of wrongdoing, much less any high crime or misdemeanor.
00:35It was obvious that that phony effort was solely designed to provide election fodder
00:41for Trump in advance of November's election.
00:44And recently, the chairman of the committee overseeing that investigation even admitted
00:49as much.
00:50And now that President Biden has selflessly and patriotically passed the torch to Vice
00:55President Kamala Harris, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are scrambling
01:00to help Donald Trump's electoral chances by using our time here today on a blatantly false
01:07resolution about Vice President Harris.
01:10The title of this resolution is, quote, strongly condemning the Biden administration and its
01:16border czar Kamala Harris's failure to secure the United States border.
01:22There's one problem.
01:24There's no such thing as a border czar, nor was Vice President Harris ever named the border czar.
01:31The entire premise of this resolution is simply false.
01:36Not surprisingly, the resolution makes no mention of the border security bill that the
01:41Biden-Harris administration negotiated with Senate Republicans that would have comprehensively
01:48addressed the problems at the border.
01:51Nor does it say anything about Donald Trump's decision to sabotage and kill that bipartisan
01:57bill because it would have solved the problems that this resolution complains about.
02:03Now why did he do that?
02:04Precisely because he wanted his minions in the House to introduce useless and deceptive
02:11resolutions like this one to help his campaign.
02:15And while Republicans continue to play politics with the border, the Biden-Harris administration
02:20did not stop trying to solve the problems facing the administration.
02:25They used what limited authority they have to control the border, and it's working.
02:31The resolution cites statistics from May of 2024 that there were 170,723 encounters at
02:38the border, but the resolution does not include numbers from the next month, June of 2024,
02:45which cut encounters by more than half to 83,536.
02:51And while my Republican colleagues continue to put politics over solutions, this administration
02:57and House Democrats will continue to put people over politics to address the issues facing
03:03the American people.
03:05I urge my colleagues to reject this false, inaccurate, and deceptive resolution.
03:11I yield back.

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