Chairman Green [Rules Committee]: If you take the five thousand that they want to allow to come in every day [border bill], and multiply that times three hundred and sixty-five, and multiply that times an average of fifteen thousand dollars that the drug cartels collect per person, that's how may billions of dollars we're giving to the drug cartel with this bill.
[$27,375,000,000]
Fermamdez: Ranking Member Thompson, I need to tell you that I am so grateful, so grateful, for the work that you did as chairman of the January 6th committee. Because you shown a bright light for all Americans to see, on prime time, and in detail, how close we came, how close the insurrectionists came to the members of congress…how close we came to allowing a president who had lost an election, who knew he had lost election, from, staying in power.
Thompson: The Select Committee [January 6th] uncovered actual crimes committed by the former president. In fact, he's facing trial for some of them in federal court, and in Georgia right now. Those are clearly impeachable offenses. Republicans can not allege Secretary has committed any particular crime, let alone a high-crime or misdemeanor.
[Mayorkas has repeatedly violated at least seven federal immigration laws]
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Fernandez: Republicans seem to run on chaos.
[chaos created by democrat criminals]
Fernandez: That violent attack [January 6th] on our democracy, led to the death of five law enforcement officers, and seriously injured a hundred and forty more officers. That's what an impeachable offense looks like. That's what high-crimes and misdemeanors look like.
I think they are free to lie in these committees and hearings.
Massie: Where was she [Kamala Harris, [incoming vice president] on January 6th, while all of this was going on at the Capital?
Thompson: I don't know.
Massie: Do you know there were pipe bombs allegedly present on January 6th?
Thompson: I know there were two pipe bombs, one at the democratic headquarters, and one at the republican.
Massie: So you're in charge of the entire investigation of what happened on January 6th, what led up to January 6th, and you don't know that the incoming vice president was in the DNC when that pipe bomb was sitting there?
Thompson: I, I, I don't, you know, we did not, our investigation was looking at the facts and circumstances. We knew that there were pipe bombs, we just; I'm sure the evidence will say she was wherever she is.
Massie: So you guys, your committee did investigate the pipe bomb, or did not investigate the pipe bomb?
Thompson: We, uh, uh, I'm trying to figure out; we're not a criminal investigation…we, we were an oversight body looking at the facts and circumstances. We were not a criminal body to see who laid the bomb or anything like that.
Massie: Here we had on January 6th, what we are being told by the FBI and ATF, viable bombs within just feet of the incoming vice president…a viable bomb for over an hour, the Secret Service takes forever to respond to it, and here we have Secretary Mayorkas who was over all of this, not on that day, but I am not as concerned about that day, as I am now about the information we can't get, and the information that he hasn't tried to get as far as I can tell…apparently it's still the word of the Secret Service that this stuff is deleted, and it ain't never coming back. Because they didn't just delete the electronics, they destroyed the phones…I am concerned that Secretary Mayorkas is, either through acts of commission or omission, involved in this obstruction of congress.
Norman [Rules Committee]: You know, Mayorkas is just doing what he's told. He's a hired hand. The real culprit is Joe Biden.
Unbelievably, I don't think he has gone back yet:
December 1, 2023: "Jussie Smollett's 2021 conviction, sentence, upheld on appeal, but actor vows to fight on. The actor is unlikely to have to report to jail anytime soon, as a spokeswoman says he will petition the Illinois Supreme Court next."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/1/23984282/jussie-smollett-conviction-sentence-upheld-appeal