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It’s totally different, we didn’t call anybody about a change in the votes. We just voted on a process. To protest a process is what we did. Nobody stormed the Capitol. Nobody disrupted the count. We only voted to protest a process, which is a legitimate thing in this country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Although not the finalist, Judge Childs’ inclusion among the three that were interviewed continues her record of remarkable contributions to making this country’s greatest accessible and affordable for all.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think process is sort of in its final phase. I suspect that the president will hold to his timetable of naming someone before the end of the month. And probably address that candidate in his State of the Union address that we expect to get on March 1.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I said yes, there was a lot of progress in 1800s are but something happened in 1895 when South Carolina came up with a new constitution that took away all of the rights that had been given to people of color. Now, we seem to be moving in the same direction. We’d better be careful. We’re talking about how much we have gained just because I’m sitting in Congress today does not mean there will be a 10th person.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now, as it relates to who, I don't have anything against the seven or eight names that I have been floated as possibilities, the all great people, the fact of the matter is, I have been discussing Michelle Childs with the president and his people now for, I guess at least 13 months now.
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Now, as it relates to who I don't have anything against the seven or eight names that I have been floated as possibilities, the all great people, the fact of the matter is, I have been discussing Michelle Childs with the president and his people now for, I guess at least 13 months now.
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We have two Republican senators from South Carolina, both of them know Michelle very well and both of them have spoken highly of her and the Republicans all over this state because she's an outstanding jurist.
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I don't know why people come saying, ‘You need to step aside for me.' No, if you want my seat, come get it, clyburn and friends have nothing positive to show for these past 13 months.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What is true today was not true then, and therefore the kind of changes that we need to make, the kind of modifications that we need to make must fit the times.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
At some point, I want to go to a rocking chair. At some point I want to have more time to play golf.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What I try to do is demonstrate by precept and example how we are to proceed as a party, when I spoke out against sloganeering, like ‘ burn, baby, burn ’ in the 1960s and ‘ defund the police,' which I think is cutting the throats of the party, I know exactly where my constituents are. They are against that, and I ’m against that. The House majority whip, who has repeatedly voiced concerns against calls to reduce police funding, made similar comments in November when he told Axios that Democrats struggled in the 2020 elections.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I will tell Jeff Zients we may be talking about the big lie as it relates to the election, but very close to that is this notion that people don't want to work. I have not met any of those people who don't want to work.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Nobody ever said that. We’ve never called for defunding the police. Somebody put that sloganinto the process, that's what we're all about. So I'm a little sick and tired of this argument.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
For us to ignore that is to be ignorant about history and ignorant about the facts.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Both of them are wrong. Native Americans have been here forever, christopher Columbus did n’t discover America.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I agree with him on that, i do n’t think a racist country would have elected Barack Obama as president, or Kamala Harris as vice president.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's just somebody on the other side trying to cause mischief.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we will send the articles some time after that.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We'll take the vote that we should take in the House, and( Pelosi) will make the determination as to when is the best time to get that vote and get the managers appointed and move that legislation over to the Senate, it just so happens that if it didn't go over there for 100 days, it could -- let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we'll send the articles sometime after that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We'll take the vote that we should take in the Senate House, and( House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) will make the determination as to when is the best time to get that vote and get the managers appointed and move that legislation over to the Senate House.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If not in the Cabinet, certainly in the administration somewhere. I think Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond has one of the best political minds that I've ever encountered. ... There are a lot of young people like that that need to be involved.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Nursing home companies that received funds after committing fraud warrant particularly close scrutiny.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
But the onus, the responsibility lies with Senator McConnell to stop being so obtuse and get about the business of organizing this trial.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Using the figure the president put on the table, if his $5.7 billion is about border security then we see ourselves fulfilling that request, only doing it with what I like to call using a smart wall.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If you tell me you're going to provide the resources for people to get these educations, than I'm all for it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If you say that you're going to have college -- free two-year college -- among public institutions, why would a student go to an HBCU? And most of which are private institutions, what will happen is these HBCUs will all close down all across America because they would not be able to afford to stay open.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
People get so caught up in the emotions of a campaign that sometimes they forget that history.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
People keep forgetting that to get to the universal access to health care ... was a long road.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think that the President has grown very weary of having to circumvent these issues, which a lot of people thought was the appropriate thing for him to do as president of the United States, but I think he has reached a conclusion that he needs to meet this issue head on.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have got to have a 2020 plan going forward, and that 2020 plan must start in 2015, this country is moving to the right and it's going to keep moving to the right unless the voters intervene.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
Would be Hillary be helpful? Yes she would, but she is not the only one who would help. There are a lot of Democrats at the top of the ticket who would be helpful. Would Elizabeth Warren be helpful. Yes she would. Would Joe Biden be helpful? Yes he would. I don't agree with this whole notion that it has to Hillary Clinton or it won't be a positive. I don't think that's the case at all. A presidential year is going to be helpful for us.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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