Marjorie Greene

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, we have watched tens of billions of dollars be sent to defend another nation's border that is not our own. Every single day, our border is invaded by people from foreign lands and also by drugs. Over 300 people are dying every single day. Americans are dying every single day from fentanyl poisoning. Yet, the Biden administration and this Congress have not done anything to protect our Nation's border and the American people. Just to remind everyone, the building that we are standing in, the Federal Government and everyone's paychecks here are paid by the American taxpayers. The American taxpayers and the American people deserve to have a secure border and deserve the protection of the Federal Government from the Mexican cartels that funnel drugs into America to kill Americans. I am calling for an audit of every single penny that has been sent to Ukraine, including aid money and any other moneys that have been given to the Ukrainian Government to defend their national security while our national security has been ignored. This must be done. It has to be done as soon as possible for the American people. They deserve transparency, and they deserve to see where their money is going.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition of H.R. 302, Preventing a Patronage System Act. And the reason why I do so is that the executive branch needs to function in a way that helps the administration, the current President of the United States. President Trump had an executive order to make a section called schedule F, where employees could be terminated. This is very important, and the reason why I say so is I am also a businessowner. And it is very important for any businessowner, any CEO, anyone running a company, to be able to terminate people working under them. This is an important function of the executive branch. Preventing a Patronage System Act takes that away. It makes it to where they can put people into positions where you cannot fire them. That is wrong. This is not how the government should be working. It shouldn't be putting people in places, unelected bureaucrats, into positions and jobs where they cannot be terminated. Anyone should be fired. You see, there is a reason why the American people call Washington D.C. the swamp, and it is not just because it is built on a swamp. It is called the swamp for a reason; because the American people see the government as a place where they call swamp creatures; they think they never leave. In doing so, the Preventing a Patronage System Act, this bill will formally make it a Federal law in order to just make that happen. You see, we really need a system in place. We need to make sure that we don't pass Federal laws where people cannot be fired. It should never be the case. People should be fired if they are not doing a good job. People should be fired if they are not doing things effectively for the administration they work for. The President of the United States should be able to fire whoever he or she wants. The Democrats want to pass this bill to empower Democrat operatives; people that they have hired; people that they have put in their administration; they want to make sure those Democrat operatives are there to be able to undermine the next Republican President of the United States. That should not be a Federal law. And as a businessowner, I am telling you, it is so important to be able to fire people in your company that aren't doing a good job. And it should be no different for any President. The executive branch must be able to have people working there that can be terminated. Everyone knows the movie ``Pirates of the Caribbean.'' And on the ``Black Pearl''--that is the second one--it has pirates on the ship that become part of the ship walls. Effectively, that is what H.R. 302 is doing. The Preventing a Patronage System Act will make employees in the executive branch just that, part of the building walls, making it impossible to get rid of them. So, for this reason, I oppose this bill, and I urge my colleagues to vote against it.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, we are here debating about an assault weapons ban so that the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary can campaign when he goes back home, which is really odd because in that district, in that area of New York, they don't seem to be suffering from as much crime as the rest of New York where people really do need guns to defend themselves or maybe the rest of America or like Atlanta in my home State of Georgia. I will tell you something right now. I thank God for AR-15s because there have been a lot of people that have saved their own lives and defended others. I will remind you of a few. How about an 8-month pregnant woman who saved her husband's and daughter's lives from home invaders who were trying to kill them? Thank God she had an AR-15. Let me remind you of a man that had an AR-15 that was able to defend a church from a mass shooter who killed 26 people in the First Baptist Church in Sutherland, Texas. Thank God for his AR-15. Let me explain something to my Democrat colleagues. You can pass as many gun control laws as you like, but no one will stop a murderer. No one is going to hand over a gun who has murder in their heart. Do you think that your gun control laws are going to cause criminals to come running to hand over the AR-15s that they possess? No, I don't think so. If you are concerned about protecting Americans and saving lives, stop voting to kill babies up until the day of birth. Care about those children and their body parts, and then do something about all the crime all over America that is affecting Americans every single day. How about our border? How about our border being overrun with drugs and fentanyl and human trafficking? Do you care about those people, those migrants who are dying on the way because of your policies of open borders? Oh, no, it is not the gun that is the problem. It is the policies. It is the policies that you are pushing right now that are hurting Americans and causing our children to not be safe.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to stand here with my friends--Chairman Perry, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Good, Mr. Norman--in defense of our Second Amendment rights. I say this not only as a Member of Congress, but I say this as a woman, and I say this as a mother. I say this also as an adult who knows what it is like when my school was held hostage by another student with a gun, a very upset student. It is not the guns that are the issue. It is the severe mental illness, the breakdown in America with our morals and our values, and this severe divide among all of us as Americans. I want to add to this, and this is a story that I haven't even been able to share with my good colleagues here, but just this weekend, now that I am a Member of Congress, many of us get a lot of death threats, but one of my family members received a voicemail on their personal cell phone from a man saying very bad things about me, and then saying: ``This is what I am going to do to her,'' and he cocked a gun and shot it several times. This is the type of threats I get, and it came with the threat of a gun. But I tell you this as a woman and a gun owner: I need to be able to have any kind of gun that I want to own to defend myself, to defend my family, to defend my home. God forbid if someone chose to do something to me. You see, here is the issue: It doesn't matter how many gun control laws we put in place. It doesn't matter how many types of guns are banned. The criminals and the people who intend to do harm to others, those that would murder someone even if they could murder them with their bare hands, are still going to do it, and they are not going to be the ones that hand over their guns to the government. Oh, no, they are going to be keeping their guns so they can continue breaking the law. We have guns coming across our border every single day illegally. We have terrorists who have been caught at our border, and then we have a lot of got-aways. We don't know how many of those are terrorists and what kind of criminals, how much human trafficking, how much child trafficking is happening down there. Crime is up in every single city, county, and small town across America. Americans need their guns, and there should not be a ban on assault weapons because it is not about the gun or the weapon; it is about what is inside someone's human heart. What we have to do is we have to stand in defense of and protect our Second Amendment because it is the most important freedom that we have. If we are unable to do that, and we lose it in the name of the so- called issues--what they are pointing at really is a tool. A gun is a tool. The gun doesn't get up and kill people on its own. It is the people who do it. When you take away all the guns from the legal gun owners, the criminals will be the ones that are left with the guns. Then do you want to know what happens? Even if those guns are gone, they are still going to commit murder, and they will just use something else. It is about elections. That is why they are trying to ban assault weapons, because inflation is out of control, crime is out of control, gas prices are difficult to afford. Now, our President is moving us on to some sort of clean energy that just will fail America even more. This isn't what we need to do, and I am so happy that there are people here that want to stand in defense of people's gun rights.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I seek recognition for a question of personal privilege.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I would like to address the House and talk about how I have been mistreated as a freshman Member of Congress and how crimes have been committed against me. They have been caught by the Capitol Police. They have been sent to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is refusing to prosecute these crimes. This is another example of the two-tiered justice system that we are living under right now under the Biden Department of Justice and Democrat leadership. Now, I would like to go back to the beginning. Many news articles have reported that this has happened to me. But I would like to remind the House that starting on February 4, as a freshman Member of Congress, I was kicked off committees by the Democrat majority and 11 of my Republican colleagues, unfortunately. So I serve here as a Member of Congress without committees representing my district. But I have continued to work hard. I would also remind the House that on February 24, after we had voted on the Equality Act and we had been debating back and forth, I had made many statements based on my beliefs, based on Biblical truths, based on the beliefs of my district that I represent, that there are only two genders: Male and female. And I stand firm on that. But my Democrat colleague across the aisle placed a trans flag across the hall from my office to apparently, maybe, shame me for my vote. That happened. Then in response to that, I simply put up a sign outside my office responding to the flag. But it continued on. There was also another incident on June 29 where one of my Democrat colleagues screamed at me in the Cannon tunnel, yelling and screaming at me for having a mask pulled down to my chin while I was talking on a Facebook live video. So all of it was caught on a video. That Member then went to the Speaker and claimed that I had attacked her and was able to get her office moved because, apparently, she claimed I was a threat to her--where I was not--and she was given a security detail for her protection. Then there were 73 Democrat colleagues who introduced a resolution to expel me from Congress. I will tell you what that says. It simply says that, ``Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, be, and she hereby is, expelled from the House of Representatives,'' giving no reason whatsoever for this resolution, but yet, it is sponsored by 1 of my Democrat colleagues and cosponsored by 73 other Democrat colleagues. Yet, I have done nothing wrong. What else happened? Well, let's go a little further. I have over $100,000 in mask fines. And then when I went before the House Committee on Ethics on these mask fines, four of the five Democrats on the House Committee on Ethics also had their names on this resolution to expel me from Congress. I asked them to recuse themselves, and they refused. Therefore, that wasn't very fair. That is not fair treatment. I have even had my character attacked on the House floor, calling me horrendous names, horrible names, insulting names that aren't true about me at all, accusing me of things that I have never done, especially involving January 6. Then there was even an effort recently to remove my name off of the ballot so that the people of my district couldn't even vote for me. And that came from a Democrat leftwing group that was funded by Democrats. I beat that in court. All of this time, with all of these things happening, the media has promoted all of it. And because of this, I have had nearly 60 official death threats, 21 direct death threats--and there is a man from New York currently on trial for threatening to kill me--19 indirect threats--these are basically death wishes and harassment--and 8 sexually related threats, individuals that have made threats of sexual assault against myself and members of my family. I will give you a few examples. One person said, ``I need to F-ing kill you.'' Another one said, ``Marjorie Greene should find a bullet in her head.'' Another one said, ``I can't wait till you get raped until you are dead.'' And another threat said, ``I will come see you and your children''-- and it went on and on. Now, all during this time, I have requested protection, saying I need help, I need protection. I don't feel safe in these buildings. I don't feel safe at all. And all of that has been denied. But I have watched many of my colleagues across the aisle in the majority party receive a lot of protection and help, but I have gotten none. I want to go through some things that happened just recently. This sign seems to upset people so much, but it is a simple truth. That is an example of what I believe based on my Christian faith, based on what the Bible says in Genesis--that God created us in His image, male and female. He created us. And this is also the majority belief of the people from Georgia's 14th District. This sign has been attacked repeatedly. As a matter of fact, it has been attacked 11 times. Nine times it has been vandalized, and twice it has been stolen. There has been a very specific series of attacks that have happened. There are seven of these. January 25, 2022, was the first report of this type of destruction. Instead of people writing on it or stealing the sign, this was where someone decided to put a sticker on the sign using Bible verses to attack my Christian faith and covering mostly the word ``female.'' The sign destruction continued. Each time we would replace it, the same thing would happen again. I want to remind everyone that this was when our House offices were still closed to the public. It was apparent that it was a staff member somewhere in our office building. Again, it showed up, another sticker attacking my Christian faith, mostly over the word ``female.'' It happened on February 1, 2022, then on February 2, 2022, on February 22, and on February 28. Each time, the stickers were placed on the sign attacking my Christian faith. Even if I wrote something back, it didn't matter. Another sticker would appear. Every single attack had to do with a Bible verse, and it was directed at me, maybe even a sticker of a picture of Jesus that said: ``I never knew you, MTG.'' That was on the previous one. My staff and I had been communicating with the House Sergeant at Arms multiple times, but we were never getting a response. I had requested cameras multiple times but was not getting any cameras. Finally, the House Sergeant at Arms came to my office, and I talked to them out in the hallway and was very loud in the hallway about my need for surveillance cameras because I have nothing to hide. I am perfectly fine with all the cameras in this building and all the cameras in Longworth, where my office is. Myself and my staff have nothing to hide, but clearly, there are other people that do. I was demanding surveillance cameras because this entire time this had been going on--at that point, it had been over a year. The person that was continually attacking the sign is also attacking me and is angry at me. I did not know if this was a person that I got in the elevator with alone. I did not know if this person was someone that I may be on an escalator with, passing in the hallway, passing on the stairwell. I didn't know if this was a person that personally knew me or someone I had never talked to in my life. What I did know was the attacks kept coming. They would not stop. It was someone who worked in the building, and they clearly hated me. I felt very unsafe. I felt my life was in danger, especially with the amount of death threats that I receive against myself and my family and the complete refusal from the Sergeant at Arms and leadership to provide me with any kind of security or protection. Finally, they put surveillance cameras up. That was installed by the House Sergeant at Arms on March 4. Guess what? Additional destruction continued. It happened again on March 10. How about that? Six days after the camera went up, the sign was attacked again, of course, against my Christian faith, attacking my religion, and always making sure it was somewhere covering the word ``female'' on the sign, attacking my gender. This time, on March 10, there happened to be a camera installed. The suspect was caught on camera on March 10, and again, he was caught on camera on March 11. Two times in one week, he was caught. Do you know what? They didn't tell me who it was. They refused to tell me who this person was. They caught him on camera. They issued an arrest warrant to the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office on March 15 for destruction of public or private property under D.C. Code 22-3312.01. They caught him. They had it on video, knew who it was, and still refused to tell me. No one would tell me who this person is. I am still living in fear of: Who is this person? Why are they doing this? Are they possibly one of the people threatening my life? To my extreme disappointment, I received a phone call from the U.S. Attorney's Office, who I thought for sure when I got on the phone and it was a woman, I thought she might have some sympathy for what I am going through. She let me know that the U.S. Attorney's Office is declining to prosecute any charges against this person, and they would not be following through. Even though they have it on video--they know exactly who he is, and he has clearly broken the law--they didn't want to prosecute it. This is from our Department of Justice, the same Department of Justice that is not prosecuting people that are harassing our Supreme Court Justices and breaking Federal law, the same Department of Justice that is not keeping our borders safe, the same Department of Justice that is supposed to uphold all of our Federal laws for our country but not stopping the fentanyl crisis, and the same Department of Justice that isn't prosecuting crime, apparently, anywhere because crime is out of control. They don't care about crime here in this place in Congress, in the Capitol complex. They only care about the people that definitely came in and walked around on January 6. If you are one of those people, they are prosecuting you to the hilt. Some of them are rotting in the D.C. jail now. If you are a Republican Member of Congress and someone is stalking, harassing, attacking your gender, attacking your religion, they drop the charges. You see, that is a two-tiered justice system. I can't imagine why we are allowing that to happen. The problem here is all the American people are paying their taxes, and the Department of Justice is receiving their full budget, but the Department of Justice is only prosecuting crimes that matter to half the country. That is a two-tiered justice system. In order to have a justice system that is fair and good, and one that the American people can trust, it should be a justice system that prosecutes crime just because it is a crime, not based on a political party, not based on does it match up with the ideas or policies they agree with or the President that is in the White House or whoever is Speaker of the House or whoever is in leadership. It should matter that it is a crime, and they should prosecute these crimes. Unfortunately, that is not happening. I did find out who this person is, and it is reported in the news. I did find out that it is Representative Jake Auchincloss' chief of staff. His chief of staff is the person that has been consistently attacking the sign, targeting me, and harassing me. This is a chief of staff. This isn't a low-level staffer. This isn't an intern. This is a chief of staff, who has had quite a career here working in this institution and who knows better. As a matter of fact, he fully believes that you shouldn't harass anyone over their religion or their gender or their sex or any of these things. He definitely believes in hate crimes because, previously, when he worked at another Member's office, when he was chief of staff in that office, there was a man that yanked down their pride flag outside their office, yanked it down and mistreated it. Well, Tim Hysom, the chief of staff at Jake Auchincloss' office, who has been targeting and harassing me, was so offended at that action that he and the other staff chased that man down the hall. They wanted the Capitol Police to arrest him and prosecute him. They wanted him prosecuted. Yet, Tim Hysom, chief of staff for Jake Auchincloss, feels he is completely above the law. He feels and says that my sign saying there are only two genders, male and female, he says it is a statement of hate, and, therefore, he is entitled to attack me for it. You see, that is complete hypocrisy. That is not the way this works. Why is one above the other? It shouldn't be. I thought, in America, aren't we all equal? Aren't all of our beliefs protected? Isn't our speech protected? Why is my religion under attack? Why is Christianity under attack? My belief in defending women's and girls' privacy rights in sports, why is that wrong yet it is okay for him to defend the pride flag and be angered and upset and want to arrest and prosecute someone when they attack it? It is a two-tiered justice system. This is a man that I don't know; he doesn't know me. I didn't know who he was until a few weeks ago. I had no idea. For a time, I have been in my office building many times late at night, but I don't go there by myself anymore because of this man right here. I don't know if he is one of the death threats that have called my office. I don't know if he is one of the people that mail in disgusting, horrible things to me and my office. I don't know what else he would do because he feels he is above the law and beyond reproach. I also don't understand why his boss, Representative Jake Auchincloss, still has him employed. I will tell you right now, if anyone in my office, if any of my staff, were to do what he has been doing to another Member of Congress, they would be fired. My staff would never do it. Since early on in our term, when my colleague across the hall from me attacked me on Twitter by starting on my nameplate and turning the camera to herself where she planted the trans flag, no one in my office, none of my staff, has touched her flag, nor would we because we respect her freedom of speech and her right to have it there. We would not touch it. That is not how I have been treated. I have been treated much differently. I have been attacked over and over and over and over. Finally, when I got video surveillance cameras, the Capitol Police did a great job. They caught him. They issued a warrant for his arrest, and they sent it to the Department of Justice, but the Department of Justice doesn't care. Why? Probably because I am a Republican. We don't have a Republican White House. We don't have a Republican- controlled Congress. Why should Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene matter? Apparently, I don't matter. My safety doesn't matter, and the beliefs of my district don't matter, not to the Department of Justice. They have no interest in prosecuting Tim Hysom for attacking me seven times, twice caught on video. Nope. They don't care because half the country doesn't care. Let's go a little bit further. There have been more things that have happened. I feel like it is almost like high school mean-girl behavior, but this is supposed to be Congress. We also had a situation on June 16, just last week. There was a certain film crew that works for Stephen Colbert who had been basically stalking me all day long, going throughout, following us around here. My staff was very helpful in putting me in the car and keeping me away from them. They ended up outside my office, and my staff took me somewhere else so I didn't have to go there. Now, we find out that it was a certain Democrat Member who is serving on the January 6th Committee who let them in the buildings. When the Capitol Police threw them out, it also happened to be Congressman Jake Auchincloss' and Tim Hysom's staff that let them back in late at night. Madam Speaker, do you know whose office they were going to? Mine. My office. So this is more behavior where I don't feel safe. I feel as if my life is constantly threatened. I am constantly harassed. This is no way for anyone to have to do work here. This place should not be run like this. This shouldn't be allowed. Now, while the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is currently accusing one of my colleagues, Representative Barry Loudermilk, of giving tours--which is a lie about him. They are lying about him and saying that he did something he did not do. They, at the same time, were letting these people in all of our office buildings. We don't even know where they all went. But they know, and the Capitol Police know. They were allowing them to go everywhere, as if they were doing some sort of insurrection. Why is that being allowed? Why do they get to have tours and free rein running all around the hallways and attacking Members' offices, but then we get accused of something horrible? This is wrong. Madam Speaker, do you know what people care about? People care about inflation; they can't afford groceries; mothers can't find baby formula; women can't find tampons; people can't afford gas; people are so upset about crime; and people are so upset that no one cares that we even have a border. These are the things that people care about. They don't care about the petty and ridiculous garbage that happens in this place. But this is what we are dealing with because the Department of Justice will not prosecute any of these crimes. It is all about politics. Aren't politics disgusting? I am so sick and tired of politics. The whole reason why I ran for Congress is because I was upset that we are a Nation in debt that we will never be able to repay. I have three children--I hope to God I have grandchildren--and I don't know what is going to happen to their lives. I was upset because our economy is so fragile and is at risk of crumbling. I was upset because our Nation had been shut down over a virus, and we should have never been shut down. I was upset because I feel as if we have the greatest country in the world, but it is this place that doesn't respect it. I respect the American people far more than I respect this institution because the American people work their tails off. They pay their taxes. They balance their checkbooks, and they do everything they can to get by. But here we play political games where chiefs of staff who know better attack women over our religious beliefs and about the fact that we refuse to back down about there only being two genders. So if that is hate, if that is a comment of hate, am I going to end up being locked away in jail somewhere? If so, Madam Speaker, you can put me in the dungeon, and I will still scream it from the pits of the dungeon of the jail because it is my belief and it is the truth. Women are under attack and girls are under attack. We have no more rights because any man who decides that he calls himself a woman can invade our spaces. And any man--when we stand up against it--can attack us, and the Department of Justice will do nothing about it. What kind of Congress is that? Aren't we supposed to be the body that legislates the laws, creates the budget, and funds the Department of Justice? We are supposed to be. But, no, we are doing things like this. So I get to go here. I am here at work this week. Tim Hysom is still chief of staff for Representative Jake Auchincloss. Representative Adam Schiff--who is currently on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol and right now is lying about Republicans--who let in Stephen Colbert's gang of seven Democrat activist film crew still has his committee. I don't have committees. This isn't how people should be treated. This isn't right. Here is the other thing: It is not just I who feels this way. There are tens of millions of Americans--hundreds of millions of Americans-- who agree and who are tired of it, sick and tired of it. So while this institution is making a mockery of itself with its Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice refuses to prosecute all of the BLM rioters. No. Their charges got dropped. Everyone who did come in here and riot--and by the way, I didn't like it either. I didn't like it at all. It scared me a lot--but those people, oh, they have been charged. The Department of Justice will do that. But they won't prosecute this man, and his boss won't fire him. No. He gets to keep his job. Again, I want to remind you, Madam Speaker, if my staff--imagine--had attacked my colleague across the hall, had attacked her trans flag, I cannot even imagine what would happen to them. Not only would I have fired them, they would have been arrested. They would probably still be in jail, and their names, their lives, and every detail of their life would be spread all over the news. People would know where they went to elementary school, they would know their mom and dad, and they would definitely know their address, I am sure. They would have their phone number, and they would see every social media post, text, message or whatever. It would all be out there. But, no, that is not how it works for us. And that is a two-tiered justice system. The reason why I bring this up is the way that I have been treated-- mistreated really--since I came here as a freshman Member of Congress-- and I want to remind everyone that I have never been arrested. I have always paid my taxes. I have not broken the law. I have done nothing wrong. It is the majority party that doesn't like my speech. That is it. So I have been kicked off committees. I have been routinely attacked. I have been lied about. My character has been completely destroyed, not only by people in here but the media definitely helps them. I have so many death threats that I have had to pay for my own personal security. Now the Department of Justice will not prosecute someone when they are caught committing a crime against me, against my gender, and my religion. They have been attacking me over and over and over again. Do you know something, Madam Speaker? The way this place treats me is exactly the way conservatives, Republican voters, and many Americans feel treated. They feel mistreated because this place only cares about itself. This place cares about what happens here and is so disconnected to farmers who are about to go out of business, mothers who can't find baby formula, and women who can't find feminine products. All those border towns have been overrun, overrun, and overrun. They try to help the people so much. They can't even help anymore. The crime is increasing. We are sending billions and billions of dollars over for a proxy war with Russia and some other country to protect their borders, but we won't protect our own. The American people feel mistreated, the same way I feel mistreated. It is completely wrong. It needs to change. You see, Madam Speaker, this is a place where we should all be working together. It shouldn't be hard for Democrats and Republicans to come up with a budget that serves our country. It shouldn't be hard for us to work together to fund a Department of Justice that prosecutes crimes in America and crimes against Members of Congress. That should be something we care about. This shouldn't be complicated; but somehow it is complicated, and it is all complicated because of the disgusting industry called politics. And that needs to change. We are going to hit a point one day where the American people are so sick of us, are sick of Congress, and are sick of what happens here. We are going to hit a point one day where the American people will not only be sick of us, but they just won't trust us anymore. And do you want to know something, Madam Speaker? Madam Speaker, I don't blame them one single bit. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. The Speaker of the House is the one in charge of the House Sergeant at Arms. And the House Sergeant at Arms and the Senate Sergeant at Arms turned down the request for the National Guard to keep all of us safe from the threats that they knew existed.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. The Sergeant at Arms.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Nancy Pelosi.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I really appreciate him bringing up these very important details that I highly doubt we will hear anything about from the January 6 Committee. You know, there are some very interesting facts that came out today, as a matter of fact. Reporting on the failure of this Chamber, this Capitol to be secured. And I will tell you something. On January 6, I was a brand new Member of Congress.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. January 3 was my first day on the job.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. That is right. Three days. And I looked at the Capitol and thought this was the most secure building that I could possibly be in, at least in this city, possibly in the country, because it is our Nation's Capitol. And tragically, we found out that it was not. I was shocked by that. What amazes me is the overwhelming amount of evidence that the National Guard was requested to be here and it was continuously turned down. And the biggest shocker to me is that there were three people that turned it down. It was Chuck Schumer in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi in the House, and Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. No, we will not hear that from the January 6 Committee that spent millions of taxpayer dollars supposedly investigating January 6. I highly doubt we will hear that. But I want you to know that when we take back the majority, these will be the investigations that we take on. Now, I want you to know some other things that really bother me. As we have spoken about the failure and absolutely purposeful refusal to protect this Capitol by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, Chuck Schumer, and Mayor Muriel Bowser, these are the failures. They did it on purpose. There are other things I don't think we will hear about tonight, and I remind everyone. Number one, we still do not know who the pipe bomber is. Who is the person? There are videos everywhere. It is all over the FBI website but we don't hear that coming out consistently from the January 6 Committee. You know what else we don't hear enough about? We do not understand what is happening to the over 800 people who have been arrested and charged for the events on January 6. We don't know what is happening to them, and there are dozens of them right here in this city wasting away in the D.C. jail, being treated like political prisoners of war. And you know what? This is before they have been convicted of anything. They are there pretrial. And no one cares about them. No one on this January 6 Committee dares to ask a question, what is happening to these people and why their due process rights are being so flagrantly and horrifically violated, pretrial. Pretrial, they are sitting in that jail. Do you know they have begged to go to Guantanamo Bay because they think terrorists are treated better than they are treated here? But no one cares about them. These people have been arrested and charged, and they are wasting away in jail. Do you want to know something else that we are probably not going to hear about? What about the fact that there is a man named Ray Epps? Do you know who is not in the D.C. jail? Ray Epps. Ray Epps is not in the D.C. jail, and I know because I went in the D.C. jail. I did not see him there. He also is on video over and over again telling people to go in the Capitol.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. I don't think we are going to hear about Ray Epps. I don't think so. I don't think he is on the witness list. Do you know who else we probably won't hear about? The man on the scaffolding, the so-called scaffolding commander that told the crowd, told them, sent them, gave them orders to go in the Capitol. Storm the Capitol. I haven't heard about him being questioned, have you?

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. No. Do you want to know something else? Here is a woman we don't hear anything about, a woman named Rosanne Boyland, who was trampled in the tunnel, trampled to death. We never hear anything about this woman. She died in the tunnel of this Capitol, and I saw the video myself when I was in the D.C. jail, from one of the people being held there pretrial, by the way, of her body being drug across the floor, and then it was taken somewhere else. Do you know what happened when they were dragging her body away? They pulled her away from someone that was giving her CPR. She was pulled away from lifesaving CPR. Why did that happen? Are we going to hear about that from the committee tonight? I doubt it. They don't care about Rosanne Boyland. Here is my major issue. We are representatives of the people of the United States of America, and all I hear from everyone in this body is all they care about is themselves. The American people are suffering from so many things happening from the decisions of this body, but the people in this body and the people in that committee don't care about Rosanne Boyland from Georgia, by the way. They don't care about her family. They don't care about justice for them. They don't care about anything else but, oh, what happened to us on January 6. Well, what happened to the American cities in 2020 that were burned and looted and destroyed because of BLM violence? Nothing. All that money raised on ActBlue for BLM? It went in their pockets. No one paid to rebuild those communities. Not at all. You know who else we probably won't hear about is Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt right out there. We don't hear about his reckless record of guns, which is all we have talked about all week in here. We aren't hearing about that. Why aren't we hearing about that record? Why? Why isn't he standing trial? He is not. He just gets to get away with it. It is on video; I bet you we won't see this video, but I have seen it. It is out there. Did you know Ashli Babbitt was trying to stop people from breaking in? That is on video. I have watched it over and over. She was trying to stop people from breaking in, and then she was shot and killed. Yes, a lot happened on January 6. Do you know what else--and the American taxpayers pay for this--there are surveillance cameras all over this building. If we really want to know the truth about January 6, it is real easy. All we have to do is release the video footage, and everyone can see for themselves what exactly happened. I think the American people deserve that while they have to watch and go through this big cinematic production tonight and carrying on for weeks and weeks and weeks. And the American people pay for it, by the way. The American people deserve to see all the video surveillance, not just the little cut and pasted pieces that the January 6th Committee is going to show tonight. Most of all, I want to finish with this: There is something terrible happening in this process, and it is called defamation of character. The 45th President of the United States' character is being defamed and all of his staff and his family and all Republicans. Everyone's reputation is being defamed as lies are being told about all of us and President Trump just for politics, and it makes me sick. It absolutely disgusts me. If we are supposed to represent the American people, and we are supposed to do a good job and uphold this place with honor and keep its reputation good for the people we serve, then we should be truthful. But what is about to happen tonight is not going to be truthful. It is going to be a political narrative, and it is all for politics. It is sickening.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, well, we don't agree on much these days here in Congress but I know there is one thing we all agree on. We all agree that we really like guns. See, we are the special privileged elites. We are the ones in this Chamber being protected by guns while the American people don't have men and women with guns outside their homes. Of course, not at any gun-free school zone they are not protected, nor at work. But here at Congress, the same Congress that is voting to send just millions and millions of dollars worth of guns to Ukraine so that they can defend themselves is the same Congress working as hard as possible to take away the Second Amendment rights from Americans. You see, our job here is to protect rights like due process and the Second Amendment rights of Americans, not strip them away. Red flag gun laws violate Americans' due process rights and this is the type of thing that we shouldn't be passing in this Congress, especially while we enjoy the very privileged elite special protection of guns.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. In 1990, our schools became gun-free school zones, and on September 6, 1990, when I was 16 years old, my high school went on lockdown because one of the students at my school brought three guns to school in a duffel bag on the school bus, brought the guns into our school, and proceeded to take control of our high school. And he was the only person in the school who had guns. That is why that happened. There was no one to protect us who had a gun that day. The only person with guns was the very mentally ill, upset teenager who had brought guns to school that day to kill other students. I know that fear. As a matter of fact, I think I am the only Member of Congress that that has actually happened to. I am also a mom. I have dropped off my kids at school for years, wondering would this happen at my children's school. Would they face a terrible fate like the poor children in Uvalde? This should never happen to our children, and I can't help but point out to all of us here, while we are debating how to protect our kids in school and we are debating our Second Amendment gun rights, I want to point out that we are all so privileged to be in this building being protected by armed guards with guns who are protecting our lives. It is shocking to me that this body of Congress won't do the same thing for children in schools all over America because we know one thing works. We know that a gun is a tool, and it is a weapon that can be used to defend yourself or defend others. We are all lucky enough to have that privilege, but our schoolchildren aren't. If we really want to be serious about protecting our kids here in America, we will repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act, and we will put into action real legislation that protects children in schools everywhere, all over America, with good guys with guns, the same way we are being protected.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill. I find it shocking to hear language coming from my colleagues across the aisle accusing Republicans of the horrific shooting in Buffalo, when in fact, the shooter's manifesto itself stated he acted as a lone wolf. No Republican had anything to do with that. I also find it shocking to hear these accusations coming from the party that supported BLM riots that caused over $2 billion in damages in cities and communities across the country. Now, when we are talking about identity politics, we should remind one another that there were 6 people murdered and 62 others injured by a Black American who drove his car through a Christmas parade in Waukesha. There was also a Black American that shot and injured 23 people on a New York City subway. I am not hearing any of those examples as domestic terrorism from my colleagues across the aisle, and I don't understand why. I think these acts should be blamed on the people that are doing them, not on people's identity and their skin color. Another thing that is wrong with this bill is it provides unlimited money to profile Americans that the Department of Justice says are white supremacists. That is why Democrats want to pursue every single conservative in America, simply because they want to choose who is a white supremacist and not.

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the Speaker, herself, has called Republicans enemies of the State. If the Speaker does not like Republicans' politics and considers us enemies of the State, we all know what domestic terrorists will mean to Democrats. That will mean anyone who stands in their way in their lustful quest for power. This would be parents that are trying to hold people accountable with their tax dollars for how their children are taught, or anyone else that they want to blame for something they want to use for politics.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and legacy of Road Patrol Corporal Christopher Dye. Christopher dedicated his life to the people of Walker County and our Nation, making the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Christopher worked at the Hays State Prison and the Walker County Sheriff's Office until the tragic events of 9/11 struck our country. In October 2001, Christopher joined the Army and dedicated the next 12 years to serving our country. Christopher was a member of the 118th Airborne Infantry, performing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even after developing lymphoma, he never gave up his post. Christopher was highly decorated for his valiant service and returned to the Walker County Sheriff's Office to work alongside his family. In November 2020, Corporal Dye encountered fentanyl on a drug arrest. This exposure caused him to suffer a massive heart attack, and he passed away that evening. Corporal Dye was awarded the Walker County Sheriff's Office Employee of the Year award later that year. He is survived by his wife Kelly Jo and their five children. Today, I am introducing a resolution honoring Corporal Dye for his selfless sacrifice to the people of Walker County, northwest Georgia, and the Nation.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Ukrainian supplemental bill. Madam Speaker, $40 billion, but there is no baby formula for American mothers and babies. An unknown amount of money to the CIA in the Ukraine supplemental bill, but there is no formula for American babies and mothers. Madam Speaker, $54 million in COVID spending in Ukraine, but there is no formula for American babies and mothers. Madam Speaker, $900 million for nonprofits and organizations in Ukraine, but there is no formula for American babies and mothers. Madam Speaker, $8.7 billion for economic support and funding in Ukraine, but there is no formula for American mothers and babies. If this is about claiming that it is about saving lives, let's be real, then we would care about war-torn countries like Ethiopia. So that is a bunch of hypocrisy, because I never hear Ethiopia brought up here. Totally ignoring our own border crisis, our own baby formula crisis, and brutal inflation, skyrocketing gas prices that no one can afford, but $40 billion for Ukraine? Stop funding regime change and money laundering scams and U.S. politician coverups of their crimes in countries like Ukraine. The American people do not support paying for constant U.S. involvement in foreign affairs while our own government fails our own country. Let me remind everyone here: We swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and our borders. We should be paying attention to our country right now.

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Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the previous question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 471, the PAUSE Act of 2021. This important bill, introduced by my good friend Yvette Herrell, would maintain health screening protections at the border and ensure that the Biden administration does not allow foreigners to enter our country illegally without being properly vetted. I am from Georgia. For those of us that don't live in border States, it is a lot different when we see on the news the stories of the massive invasion at our southern border. It is a lot different when we read about it. But when I went to the border just a few days ago with Congressman Tony Gonzales--he put together a great trip, and I am so grateful--it became very clear to me. What is happening at our southern border is a crisis of epic proportions, and it is difficult to comprehend it until you actually see it in person. This is a complete human and drug trafficking operation that is doing nothing for Americans but hurting our country and enriching the cartels. They have grown their network and expanded it massively throughout their country, into our country, far-reaching, even into our cities, as was explained to us by the Border Patrol, where they recruit from our own American cities to come down to Mexico to help them traffic humans and drugs across our southern border. This should never be happening, and it certainly was not happening not long ago under the Trump administration, where we had the most secure border we have had in decades. Mr. Speaker, I urge our Congress to take this very seriously. As we are discussing other countries and other borders, this is the one country where we all swear an oath to uphold our laws and defend our Constitution, and we serve the American people from each of our own districts. We should be taking extreme seriousness to this invasion at our southern border, not only for the COVID-19 pandemic but also for the many other dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis and others that they bring into our country. Passing title 42 is imperative, and it is the most important thing this Congress can do at this time, as there is an average of 7,000 people coming across the border every single day and hundreds of thousands of got-aways that we don't know who they are, where they are from, and what their purpose and intent is to do in the United States of America. We already know that 42 known terrorists have been apprehended at our southern border, but we don't know how many terrorists exist in those hundreds of thousands of got-aways. When I listen to a grown man cry over the amount of illegal aliens that are, 24 hours a day, coming across his ranch in Eagle Pass, it is a shame, and it is a tragedy.