[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 119 (Monday, July 16, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





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                      RUSSIANS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, now that the Manchurian President has come 
back from meeting with his holders in Helsinki, we need to look at what 
is going on here.
  We were scolded today in another country by the President of the 
United States telling us how: Well, Russia has made mistakes. Well, we 
have made mistakes, too.
  When has a President ever done that? And all my colleagues do is sit 
over there and don't say a word.
  Let this have been some other President, it would be holy water in 
here.
  He attacks women all the time--Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth 
Warren, Megyn Kelly, Hillary Clinton, you name it. But then stands 
there next to the person that had everything to do with our elections 
being rigged or held up, and he stands there and says: Well, he said he 
didn't do it.
  What is going on here? Is there any backbone?
  The President of the United States doesn't have a backbone. What did 
I see today?
  It used to be being called a communist was the worst thing you could 
call someone. Now they are our friends?
  Wake up.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Banks of Indiana). Members are reminded 
to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President.

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