‘Get Lost!’ McGovern Loses It on House Floor Over Republicans’ ‘Stupid Resolution’
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) went on a tirade against a resolution that would fine and potentially jail Attorney General Merrick Garland.
House Republicans issued a subpoena to Garland seeking the audio from a deposition that President Joe Biden sat for with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur investigated Biden over his retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Ultimately, the special counsel declined to prosecute in part because he said a jury could view Biden as a sympathetic “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Garland has refused to hand over the audio, prompting the Republican-controlled House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress last month. On Wednesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) forced a vote on a resolution that would fine Garland $10,000 a day until he produces the audio. The measure would also hold Garland in “inherent contempt,” which would make him susceptible to arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms and a trial in Congress.
“This is a stupid resolution,” McGovern declared on the House floor. “Republican leadership knows this is a stupid resolution. Their own members know this is a stupid resolution. But they’re beholden to the craziest MAGA members in their conference. And so, this is what we get: stupid resolutions on the floor because they’re too chicken to stand up to the extremism in their own party.”
The lawmaker noted that Garland provided the transcripts of Biden’s deposition after Republicans demanded he do so, and went on to say that Republicans only want the audio so they can use it against Biden in campaign ads. McGovern also noted that several high-profile Republicans have also refused to comply with subpoenas over the last few years:
Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry all ignored congressional subpoenas. I go right down the list. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, former Attorney General William Barr, former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows, former Deputy Chief-of-Staff, Dan Scavino – all ordered to testify, and what did they do? They ran and hid following the lead, by the way, of their corrupter-in-chief, Donald Trump, who ignored his own congressional subpoena.
It’s like a national pastime for Republicans. Golf, fishing, and ignoring subpoenas. And now, and now they have the nerve to come down here and lecture anyone about the rule of law. Get Lost! Get Lost! Get out of here with this nonsense!
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