two minutes. the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. why are we here on the floor of the house of representatives listening to the democrats and socialists and their republican puppets, reviewing steve bannon s podcast? i can t imagine that would be the case if they actually had a bill, a reconciliation deal, legislation to help the american people. we re not here because of democracy. save me the alligator tears on that. these are the folks who assaulted our democracy for two years under the spector of the russia hoax. it s sure not about violence because they didn t seem to give a damn when our country was being engulfed in flames during the riots in the summer of 2020. it s not about congressional process. if it was about congressional process, democrats would be doing what they have done in other cases. they would go to court. but the reason they haven t gone to court, like they did for trump s taxes, in the deutsche bank subpoenas, in the mazers
0 have. the question they ask is why were we so unprotected on january 6 and what has changed since then? getting to the bottom of those questions should be the top priority for all of us in this house. there are serious security vulnerabilities that have been not addressed by this house in 11 months after january 6, and this is what the majority has decided to spend its time on. holding a private citizen who wasn t even part of the administration at the time in contempt for refusing to comply with house democrat subpoenas? this is after more than 600 people have been arrested for their role in the tragedies we saw on january 6. when i get the article i would like to submit for the record, madam speaker, a reuters record talking to the fbi that there was no effort to overthrow the government on january 6. i will submit it once i get a copy of that. i did not bring it with me. but our job, again, is to secure this capitol. we ve never seen a breach like the one we saw that day. and it s