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| Again, that's all day today over on C-SPAN 2's American History TV. | ||
| The Senate has passed the remaining spending bills and temporary funding for the Homeland Security Department and ICE to reopen the government. | ||
| The deal came together after negotiations between Senate Democrats and the White House. | ||
| Prior to the votes, one senator, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, objected, bringing the floor to a standstill because the House had repealed a law allowing senators, but not House members, to sue the government if their phones had been searched without their consent. | ||
| He eventually lifted his hold after being promised a vote in the future on his issue. | ||
| Prior to that, he explained his reasoning to place the hold. | ||
| What happened with Jack Smith? | ||
| Here's what happened to me. | ||
| I didn't know, but now I know that they literally started asking the phone company about my phone calls professionally and personally during a period of time when I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee by subpoena. | ||
| No one's ever suggested I broke the law. | ||
| This actually really bothers me. | ||
| If I were a Democrat, I would be bothered too. | ||
| The original Arctic Frost provision was signed off by Leader Schumer and Thune, Senator Thun, and it was seen as to have an ethical problem, not my intent. | ||
| I fixed it. | ||
| I changed the language so it would comply. | ||
| No enrichment by me or anybody else. | ||
| But I'm not going to give up on the idea that we should abandon holding Jack Smith accountable. | ||
| The House, you took the Arctic Frost language of the Senate and took it all out. | ||
| You could have called me about the $500,000. | ||
| I'd be glad to work with you. | ||
| You jammed me. | ||
| Speaker Johnson, I won't forget this. | ||
| I got a lot of good friends in the House. | ||
| If you think I'm going to give up on this, you really don't know me. | ||
| So how about this idea to my House colleagues? | ||
| Why don't we expand a private cause of action to the 430 Republican groups that may have been abused by Jack Smith? | ||
| Nothing to do with me. | ||
| You took the provision and you gutted it. | ||
| You took the notification provision out, telling senators or congressmen they're asking for your phone records when you're not under criminal investigation and you should know. | ||
| Senator Peters and I are this close to finding a bipartisan solution to protect the body in the future. | ||
| It's Republicans today, it could be Democrats tomorrow. | ||
| We should all want to be notified as senators in a separate branch of government. | ||
| The executive branch is looking for our phone records unless we're charged or investigating a crime. | ||
| That's just common sense. | ||
| They took that out. | ||
| There was a stampede in the House. | ||
| Everybody says, well, it passed unanimously in the House. | ||
| I could care less. | ||
| What you did, I think, was wrong. | ||
| You overreacted. | ||
| We'll fix the 500,000. | ||
| Count me in. | ||
| But you took the notification out. | ||
| I'm not going to give up on that. | ||
| I'm demanding a vote on the floor of the United States Senate to an amendment that requires notification to a member of Congress if their phone records are being looked at by the executive branch unless they're under criminal investigation. | ||
| That's a phishing expedition. | ||
| We should all be against that. | ||
| I'm going to demand a vote on the floor that groups, not members of Congress, who may have been harmed by Jack Smith have a private cause of action. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, the Republican National Committee, the Conservative Partnership Institute, the American First Policy Institute, Save America PAC, MyPillow, 430 Republican-aligned groups and individuals, 197 subpoenas against these groups and what they were doing. | ||
| To the House, if you expect me to deny these people a chance to have their day in court against Jack Smith, you're talking to the wrong guy. | ||
| I'm urging the Speaker, give these people and anybody else we find, 430 groups, a chance to hold Jack Smith accountable in court. | ||
| Nothing to do with me. | ||
| And if you don't do that, you're giving a pass to what I think is the most abusive investigation maybe in the history of the country, Jack Smith. | ||
| Within three days of President Trump announcing I'm going to run again, they have a special counsel, and with six months, they got 90 felony charges in the most liberal districts in the country. | ||
| I believe it was a coordinated effort to make Trump unelectable. | ||
| I believe it was lawfare, and I'm going to pursue my beliefs. | ||
| As to me, what have I done to justify this? | ||
| He says he can defend what he did to me. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Get a good lawyer. | ||
| See in court. | ||
| What did I do wrong? | ||
| I'm the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. | ||
| I'm asking questions. | ||
| When it came to January the 6th, I think I was more the solution than the problem. | ||
| I took this floor and say, enough. | ||
| I don't think the election was stolen. | ||
| There may have been some abuses, but I'm done. | ||
| And what happens? | ||
| I find out during all this time, they're looking at me for being involved in a plot to skill the election when I'm the biggest advocate enough. | ||
| You actually used my name to Verizon. | ||
| See in court. | ||
| To the government. | ||
| Donald Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion because somebody, the IRS, may have leaked his records. | ||
| You should sue. | ||
| If our government can't be sued by people, only by people not in it, then people like us are wolves or lambs to the slaughter. | ||
| If they ever say that because you're in the government, you have no rights, that because I'm a senator, my right to use my phone without being interfered with no longer exists, that's insane. | ||
| I'm going to pursue the damage done to me, hoping it will deter others in the future. | ||
| I hope after all this is over, people will not be looking, going on fishing expeditions to find out who a senator was calling and why they were calling ever again unless they believe that senator has committed a crime. | ||
| Is that too much to ask? | ||
| This is a defining moment about what's the root cause of problem on immigration. | ||
| Senator Schmidt, you're right. | ||
| People have made mistakes in Minnesota, but the reason we have this chaos is that 12 states are pursuing policies that are insane. | ||
| I will not enforce federal law because I don't like it. | ||
| And it's popular. | ||
| Those days are over. | ||
| And if a conservative, if you start doing that stuff, we've had clerks of court that would refuse to do laws around marriage. | ||
| I had an opponent in the 2016 race. | ||
| I didn't last long. | ||
| He did better. | ||
| There's some lady somewhere saying, I'm not going to recognize a certificate of gay marriage because it violates my religious beliefs. | ||
| And that was her job, right? | ||
| And one guy said, I think she's right. | ||
| I will go to jail with her. | ||
| And I said, we will miss you. | ||
| I'm not going to jail for that. | ||
| I've got my own views about gay. | ||
| But if you're a public official, you don't get to have your own views and be a veto. | ||
| So on the right, there were a lot of people wanting to make a point. | ||
| I don't agree with gay marriage. | ||
| I'm not going to follow law. | ||
| Well, you could go to jail too. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| Our political desires have to have some boundaries around here. | ||
| So I am willing to lift my hold. | ||
| I'm willing to vote yes. | ||
| I actually like the products. | ||
| I'm asking for two simple things. | ||
| Give me a chance to express myself on what the solution to our problems on immigration are. | ||
| I'm not asking for an outcome for a vote. | ||
| I've got a bill. | ||
| I want to vote on it. | ||
| And as to Arctic Frost, I want to have a chance to have a vote on a version that would expand private cause of actions for non-members of Congress who may have a claim against Jack Smith to be up there and prove it. | ||
| And I want to work with Senator Peters to see if we can find a way to give us notice so that the next administration can't fish for who we're talking to. | ||
| They've got to actually have a real reason. | ||
| That's all I'm asking. | ||
| And I think those are reasonable things. | ||
| I will end where I began. | ||
| To the appropriations process, it's a miracle we've done it the way we've done it. | ||
| It's actually what we've been hoping for. | ||
| Everybody who's been complaining in our conference, let's get back to regular order. | ||
| Well, when we try to get back to regular order, they won't let us. | ||
| Let's do less spending. | ||
| We check that block. | ||
| Well, that's not enough. | ||
| We actually have, Senator Tillis, appropriations below CR's. | ||
| And like all of a sudden, we're still the bad guys. | ||
| People have said, let's go to the floor and debate. | ||
| Well, they won't let us get to the floor. | ||
| So there are people in our conference, I've just like, had it. | ||
| We got to have a regular, to our leadership. | ||
| You're my friends. | ||
| We're playing not to lose. | ||
| They, on the other side, have the courage of their convictions. | ||
| They're coming out here with 21 things that we should do to stop abuses in Minneapolis. | ||
| We're just sitting around looking at each other, worried. | ||
| Hold the people accountable in ICE who may have broken the law. | ||
| But stand up for those in the field trying to protect America and have the courage to say, it's not about Christy Noam, whether you like her or not. | ||
| It's not about Stephen Miller, whether you like him or not. | ||
| It's a deeper, bigger problem. | ||
| And that's a debate worthy of a great country. | ||
| So to my Republican colleagues, we need to up our game. | ||
| I'm not asking you to do things that I think are unachievable. | ||
| Have a vote. | ||
| If we lose, we lose. | ||
| But I am frustrated, and there are a lot of people out there frustrated, that the moment is not being met. | ||
| I think it's time to reevaluate. | ||
| To my Democratic friends, you think you got the upper hand? | ||
| You may for the moment, but what you're asking for is really too much. | ||
| And part of your problem is you haven't really acknowledged the Lake and Rileys of the world, and all the people have had their lives upended. | ||
| That's not balance. | ||
| You're probably right about ICE reform, but none of you, no protesters, nobody up in arms about this young lady being murdered, and thousands other like her. | ||
| So in two weeks, we're going to have a debate. | ||
| I'll lift my holes. | ||
| All I ask is to have a voice in that debate. | ||
| Down the road, all I ask for is to give access to people I think were harmed by Jack Smith. | ||
| They'll have to prove their case, nothing to do with me, and protect the body against fishing expeditions. | ||
| That's what I'm asking. | ||
| I hope we can get there, and I'll end where I began. | ||
| It's not about the appropriations process. | ||
| I actually think we've done a damn good job beyond what I ever expected. | ||
| Now, the Hart Frost amendment, nobody talked to me. | ||
| I've talked to Senator Collins. | ||
| We'll get that right. | ||
| Final thought, I told Senator Thun. | ||
| What does it matter if a single senator says the entire House is wrong, we should respect that senator and let them have their say. | ||
| I've been told the White House doesn't like this. | ||
| And I told the White House last night, I don't care if you like it or not. | ||
| I literally texted my friends at the White House. | ||
| If I were you, I would not call me tonight. | ||
| And they didn't call me. | ||
| I don't work for the White House. | ||
| They're my political allies. | ||
| I'm close to President Trump. | ||
| I don't work for him. | ||
| I don't work for the House. | ||
| I've been in the House. | ||
| I enjoyed it. | ||
| I like this better. | ||
| Why do I like the Senate better? | ||
| Because one person has a say. | ||
| So when I heard that, well, the House passed it, I think they made a mistake. | ||
| I think they went too far. | ||
| The 500,000 thing, let's fix. | ||
| But you took it all out because there's a rush to judgment, political stampede. | ||
| So don't ever come to me ever again and say you're just one voice. | ||
| That's not a good reason to not let me know what's going on or to deny me a chance to have that voice. | ||
| To every senator in this body, when they started this stuff a long time ago, 250 years ago, they made you special. | ||
| There's things that we can do that nobody in the government can do as a single senator. | ||
| I am not giving that right away to any friend or foe in the White House. | ||
| I'm not letting the House take that right away from me. | ||
| I'm not letting the leadership take that right away from me. | ||
| And you know why you should sort of be in my camp? | ||
| It could be you tomorrow. | ||
| Senator Tillis, you've done some things by yourself that you thought were right. | ||
| We need more of that, not less than that. | ||
| Senator Collins, you got ripped by the president and took it in a way that I think people of Maine should be proud of. | ||
| I don't know what was said, but it was reported as pretty tough. | ||
| And you stood your ground. | ||
| And I don't agree with you about the vote, but I know with Susan Collins, here's what I get. | ||
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| She'll listen, she'll make her mind up. | ||
| And if you think you're going to change Susan Collins by a phone call, you really don't know her very well. | ||
| She does it with a smile, problem solving, there's not enough of it. | ||
| So this is a time for all of us to reflect. | ||
| I like never do this. | ||
| I never hold things. | ||
| I never say, I got to have my vote or else. | ||
| I'm doing it now because I think it will reset. | ||
| I think it will reset the debate. | ||
| I think it would be good for my party to up our game. | ||
| I think it would be good for the Democrats to have a challenge on their hands. | ||
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