00:00I'm going to support Mr. Blanche's nomination, but what I hope I see out of him is a bending of
00:05the curve of this absurdity.
00:07The 86-47, some bonehead in North Carolina thinks that that's a crime.
00:13Well, they better damn sure have information to back it up, because if all it is is a picture, that
00:17person should lose his job.
00:19Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Senator Cornyn.
00:22I am by no means going to match up against Senator Cornyn, a lawyer and a former judge, except to
00:29say that I believe that we have addressed the concerns that I have.
00:33The first one, I called the payout pot for punks.
00:35I've never liked this 1776 fund.
00:38It made no sense to me, and I thought it was an insult to the police officers and the people
00:42that defended us on January the 6th.
00:44It's done.
00:45It's been rescinded, and I am satisfied.
00:49I also feel like Senator Cornyn addressed the other piece of it that has to do with the audit, to
00:55my satisfaction.
00:56You know, the thing that interests me, and I'm kind of curious about the speeches that come after here, is
01:03how everybody has this view of they are as pure as the driven snow, and it's the other side that
01:09has a problem.
01:10I think we both have a problem, folks.
01:12If you want to talk about weaponization, take a look at the Biden administration.
01:18Take a look at the Obama administration.
01:20Take a look at Crossfire Hurricane.
01:23Take a look at the codes that Lois Lerner used in the IRS to target businesses to try and unbank
01:29them.
01:30Take a look at the prospective pardons on the way out the door that President Biden did for family members,
01:36for staff members in Congress.
01:39The bottom line is nobody is clean here.
01:41And until we start recognizing this behavior as bad, we're just going to one-up it.
01:46Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one, and that a little bit more
01:52intense than the prior administration, and so on and so forth.
01:55But, folks, we've got to end this stuff.
01:58We do.
01:59I'm going to support Mr. Blanche's nomination.
02:01But what I hope I see out of him is a bending of the curve of this absurdity.
02:08The 86-47, some bonehead in North Carolina thinks that that's a crime.
02:14Well, they better damn sure have information to back it up, because if all it is is a picture, that
02:18person should lose his job, his or her job.
02:21Similarly, the people who went after Republicans in the Biden administration should probably be disbarred or disciplined.
02:29So, at the end of the day, don't act like you're standing on some sort of moral high ground if
02:34you start attacking this administration, because I can match you almost deed for deed.
02:39What I would like to see here is maybe people saying, instead of criticizing people on the other side of
02:47the aisle, why don't you go back and hold your own caucus and your conference to our standard?
02:52That's what I'm doing.
02:54That's what Senator Cornyn's doing, and that's what I think the American people want more of.
02:59And, Mr. Chair, thank you for your patience.
03:01I know from time to time, I don't like delaying markups, but I thought that this was a very important
03:08one, because we got to a good outcome.
03:10And I appreciate Mr. Blanche working in good faith, and I am prepared to vote yes today in his confirmation,
03:16or in moving his confirmation or nomination forward.
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