[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 177 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H9028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DONALD TRUMP MUST END HIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania). The Chair 
recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Jolly) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on Donald Trump to 
withdraw his candidacy for the White House. We face a security test in 
this Nation, a national security test. It is a real and audible threat.
  I have been most critical of the President's foreign policy. It is an 
area that, respectfully, I have the greatest disagreement with this 
administration. I have begged him in correspondence, and I have used 
the word ``beg'' to do more to defeat the threat of terror.
  I believe his Oval Office address Sunday night, frankly, was 
forgettable. He spent 5 minutes suggesting he was going to do nothing 
different to defeat ISIS. He spent 5 minutes lecturing Congress, and he 
spent 5 minutes lecturing the American people.
  You see, we do face a security test that I believe the President's 
policies have underestimated. But we also face a test of our commitment 
to religious freedom, one of the basic freedoms upon which our Nation 
was founded. We are either going to defend that religious freedom or we 
are not.
  It should be heartbreaking to every American that we have a 
frontrunner in the Presidential race that suggests there will be a 
religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores. It is an 
affront to the very principles upon which our Nation was founded.
  We broke from a monarch that suggested all freedom and liberty was 
vested in the Crown and then the Crown would distribute freedom and 
liberty to the people. We founded a Nation based on what Jefferson 
called the natural rights of man, that we were, indeed, endowed by our 
Creator with very fundamental rights.
  Mr. Speaker, I am a born-again Christian. I believe in the saving 
grace of the Jesus Christ that I call my God. The beautiful thing about 
this country is I can stand here on the House floor, among my peers and 
in front of the Nation, and declare that faith without fear of any 
reprisal.
  But if Donald Trump has his way, we may not have the liberty to do 
that anymore. It is a freedom that has been fought for, from the 
Founders of our country, and generation upon generation of men and 
women who have worn the uniform of the Armed Forces and defended it, 
for the security of our Nation, and for the freedom of people.
  We are a Nation worried about our security, rightfully so. It is why 
we are calling on the President to do so much more to defeat this 
terror. It is why we are begging the President for a stronger national 
security test.
  We must always insist on a security test, but we must never require a 
religious test.
  It is time that my side of the aisle has one less candidate in the 
race for the White House. It is time for Donald Trump to withdraw from 
the race.

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