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Government at work. | |
| This is C-SPAN, giving you your democracy unfiltered. | ||
| House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke about the detainment and removal of Senator Padilla from a DHS presser. | ||
| Speaker Johnson began his remarks by highlighting the passage of a rescissions package that codified $9.4 billion in Doge cuts by the House. | ||
| Good afternoon, everybody. | ||
| Under President Trump's leadership, your taxpayer dollars are no longer being wasted. | ||
| Instead, we are fulfilling the promises we made to the American people. | ||
| We're going to be better stewards of that here. | ||
| And now we're directing all of this towards priorities that truly benefit the American people. | ||
| This is a long time overdue. | ||
| We just had an important vote here on the floor. | ||
| Today's passage of this initial rescissions package marks a critical step towards a more responsible and transparent government that puts the interests of the American taxpayers first. | ||
| We want to thank Doge for their heroic and patriotic efforts. | ||
| That work led to this. | ||
| This package eliminates $9.4 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds politically biased media outlets like NPR and PBS. | ||
| It's just one of the ways that Republicans are codifying Doge's findings and putting taxpayer dollars to better use. | ||
| There'll be more of this in the days ahead. | ||
| We had hoped our Democrat colleagues would join us in this effort. | ||
| It's an important one. | ||
| All we're trying to do is ensure that every dollar spent by the federal government is used efficiently and effectively. | ||
| But rather than expressing concern over the misuse and misspending of funds, our Democrat colleagues have another idea. | ||
| They have instead chosen to oppose these reforms simply because Republicans are leading the charge. | ||
| While they defend the failed toxic status quo, Republicans will continue to deliver real accountability and restore fiscal discipline. | ||
| As has been said many times with this administration, President Trump's leadership, and here with Republicans in the House and the Senate, it's about promises made and promises kept, and we'll continue doing that. | ||
| Mr. Question, did federal agents go too far the way they treated Senator Padilla today? | ||
| Was that a bridge too far? | ||
| I saw the same video, a very brief video that I think many people did. | ||
| I think the senator's actions, my view is it was wildly inappropriate. | ||
| You don't charge a sitting cabinet secretary, and everybody can draw their own conclusions. | ||
| You can see it's a heated debate here. | ||
| I'm not going to respond to that. | ||
| Look, let me just, hold on, wait just a second. | ||
| I think the American people can draw their own conclusions. | ||
| They saw a senator acting like wildly inappropriate. | ||
| I'll leave it at that. | ||
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unidentified
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So what about the police? | |
| What I saw was agents asking him to quiet him down so that the secretary could continue her press conference. | ||
| He refused to do so. | ||
| What were they supposed to do? | ||
| They have to restrain someone who is engaging in that kind of behavior. | ||
| They moved him out of the room. | ||
| A sitting member of Congress should not act like that. | ||
| It is beneath a member of Congress. | ||
| It is beneath a U.S. Senator. | ||
| They're supposed to lead by example, and that is not a good example. | ||
| We have to turn the temperature down in this country and not escalate it. | ||
| The Democrat Party is on the wrong side. | ||
| They are defending lawbreakers, and now they are acting like lawbreakers themselves. | ||
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unidentified
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That's a big oversight, Mr. Speaker. | |
| That's oversight, charging a cabinet secretary in a press conference. | ||
| I beg to differ. | ||
| I think that people do as well. | ||
| I think those actions speak for themselves. | ||
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unidentified
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What do you want to say about lowering the temperature in the country right now? | |
| What would you say to the people? | ||
| I have things to say about lowering the temperature all the time. | ||
| I am very consistent in this. | ||
| We have been trying to do this since I was handed the gavelin before. | ||
| I founded the Honor and Civility Caucus in the Congress for Crying Out Loud when I got here in 2017. | ||
| I think that we should act according to our offices. | ||
| We have a duty and a responsibility to set a tone, an example in our actions. | ||
| And I encourage every member of this body to do it in the House and Senate. | ||
| We have to turn the temperature down. | ||
| We need to be on the side of the rule of law. | ||
| We need to be on the side of law and order. | ||
| We need to be on the side of calm and not chaos. | ||
| And when members go into these settings and act this way, that when they push law enforcement agents around, when they storm cabinet secretaries in a press conference, I think it's wildly inappropriate behavior, and I think it sets a terrible message and tone for the rest of the country. | ||
| Will there be an investigation? | ||
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unidentified
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Will there be a House investigation? | |
| This is a Senate-side issue, but I certainly hope that behavior is not repeated over here. | ||
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unidentified
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We already. | |
| I'm the Constitutional Officer for this branch of the House. | ||
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unidentified
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This affects all members, whether they be in the House or Senate. | |
| You're the Speaker of the House. | ||
| You're the Constitutional Officer of this branch. | ||
| Yeah, and what of it? | ||
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unidentified
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The idea that you said this is a Senate issue. | |
| This isn't, I mean, these are members of Congress. | ||
| I mean, yeah, but the Senate does its disciplinary actions over there, and we do ours over here. | ||
| We have a certain set of measures, as you all know, and it ranges from censure to removal from committees to ultimately expulsion from the body. | ||
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Maybe you support that for the senator. | |
| It's not my decision to make. | ||
| I'm not in that chamber. | ||
| But I do think that it merits immediate attention by their colleagues over there. | ||
| I think that behavior at a minimum is rises to the level of a censure. | ||
| I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we are going to do. | ||
| That's not how we're going to act. | ||
| We're not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries. | ||
| We've got to do better, and I hope that we will. | ||
| But I want to say this is a good day for the House Chamber. | ||
| The first residence package is now passed through the House. | ||
| I expect it will pass through the Senate. | ||
| I expect our one big beautiful bill will continue to be processed as it is, and that we'll get it back and get it done on a tight schedule. | ||
| I'm still trying to meet our July 4th deadline so we can have a celebration on Independence Day. | ||
| And having good legislation passed will put everybody in a better mood. | ||
| So I'm looking forward to that. |