[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 205 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H6850-H6856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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ISSUES OF THE DAY
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of
January 3, 2019, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized
for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.
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Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, at this time it is an honor to yield to the
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Walker), my friend that is
apparently in his last term in this body. Hopefully, he will be serving
in another body.
Reflections on the Privilege of Service in the United States Congress
Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for
yielding.
Today, as we wrap up three terms, we could not be more overwhelmed
with the privilege that it has been to serve the people of North
Carolina, specifically, central North Carolina, in the United States
Congress.
I am the oldest of three boys, Mr. Speaker, of a Baptist preacher
from the Panhandle of Florida and have had the privilege to live in
North Carolina since 1991. Coming out of college, and having the
opportunity to work, spending 16 years as a pastor, and then the last 6
years of serving in a different capacity.
What an honor to be able to walk the halls and to be able to think
about the history that has made this country what it is today.
We were blessed to hit the ground running, becoming the first Member
since its inception in 1973 to be elected chairman at the end of their
first term of the largest caucus, the conservative caucus of the
Republican Study Committee.
Recently, I have enjoyed extending and wrapping up a term as the vice
chair of the GOP Conference. What a privilege it has been to serve the
bulk of that time as cochairman with Senator James Lankford of the
Prayer Caucus. It has been a wonderful time to gather each Monday
evening--in fact, many people don't even know the Prayer Caucus
exists--for us to gather on that Monday evening after we fly in and for
many years to gather in room 219, right off to my right, and seek God's
guidance as we prayed for constituents and we prayed for the Lord to
give us the hope and direction for this country.
I have lots of reflections over these last 6 years. I think of having
a chance to be the starting pitcher for the Republican baseball team,
an exhibition game for charity. Every year has been quite a treat.
I am sure many of my Republican friends are glad to see that the
Honorable Cedric Richmond is now senior adviser to another gentleman
and no longer in the House.
But what a privilege it has been to see the efforts that goes to the
Boys and Girls Club, Mr. Speaker. And it has been neat that this has
been a tradition since 1909.
And there have been other times. There was the moment when I saw
Steve Scalise, our whip, come back from our teammates being shot at
that morning, and how he came back and has come back strong; and how he
has always represented his faith in a way that I think has impacted
potentially far beyond any political work that he may do in this House.
There have also been times to engage in a more stern manner, serving
on the House Oversight Committee with Chairman Jason Chaffetz. Chairman
Chaffetz did a wonderful job as the House Oversight Chairman as we went
after and questioned some of the unscrupulous behavior of James Comey
and Pharma Bro. In fact, I still think Peter Strzok doesn't really care
for me, but that is okay because sometimes the job requires it.
One of the moments that stand out on the House Oversight Committee
was questioning Cecile Richards, Mr. Speaker, when I asked her
specifically: Does it bother you that there are more African-American
babies aborted in New York State than actually born? I will never
forget that she was not even aware of that statistic.
Nor did I shy away from the fights on this floor. Probably the
darkest or the heaviest moment was when we were working and going back
and forth late into the night on the born alive amendment. And I cannot
help remembering just the heaviness and the oppression of that night,
as only three of my colleagues on the Democratic side stood up and said
a baby that survives a botched abortion should have the right to stay
alive.
I struggled with that. I still struggle with it. In fact, I think it
is apparently evil not to be able to stand up and fight for all of us
who are created in the image of God.
We have heard other comments. The dogma lives loudly. Even a good
friend and colleague from Illinois that was pro-life, that was someone
who advocated, is no longer part of the body and was basically run out
of town. I struggle with those things.
If our rights come from our Creator and, as our Founding Fathers said
they have in the past, do they not also come from the Creator in the
present and in the future?
Not too far behind us here is the rotunda. There are eight pictures
in the rotunda. The first four are depictions of our settlers, the
people who founded this country who came here. In all four of those
pictures, there is a depiction of Christianity.
The other four are depictions of our Founding Fathers. The last one
is my favorite. It is George Washington. The picture is of George
Washington, December 23, 1783, and in his hand he has his resignation.
For 8 years, he had been the commander in chief of the Revolutionary
Army. Yet, in that letter he writes, though he had, potentially the
ability, the military power behind him to be something of almost a
monarch again, he captured something. He realized that if this country
was going to be great, he had the foresight in that letter to write
that the power had to come from we, the people. What a powerful
expression.
As I think back over the last 6 years, I have traveled different
places, 20-something different countries. No place at all has impacted
me more than standing there on the shores there at Normandy. And as our
guide began to talk that day, I thought about this for the first time.
History shows us that those young men were supposed to have air cover
but, because of the horrific weather, there was none. That day wasn't
won by military might; wasn't won by great generals or colonels and
military genius. Our freedom today, we can trace back to that moment,
was won by 18- and 19-year-old young men who kept running up that hill,
one wave after the other. What a powerful place and what a privilege it
is to see these real heroes.
Arthur Ashe put it this way when he talked about heroism. He said:
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge
to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve all
others at whatever cost.
In our 6 years, we have tried not to stick with the talking points.
Maybe we have had a little bit of a different approach serving in
Congress. I never surrendered my voting card either to the
establishment, to leadership, or any special interest group.
Mr. Speaker, I believe the best kind of representative that you could
have is someone who is pledging to represent all communities. You see,
America is the greatest country and the longest-lasting republic in the
history of the world; but the truth is, we didn't get it all right to
start with.
We first launched this idea of individual liberty and opportunity,
but it took a few people and a few years to get it right: The likes of
Frederick Douglass, George White, Shirley Chisholm, Jackie Robinson,
Mahalia Jackson, my friend, Clarence Henderson, and so many more
heroes. But here's the cool part of the story: We never quit trying
until our actions matched our words that in America all men would be
created equal.
One of the privileges that I have had is to serve with John Lewis and
cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge and to spend some time hearing his story
and hearing his history, because I believe this, whether Republicans or
Democrats, relationship is the conduit for good policy. People before
the politics.
You don't have to throw out what you believe or your values or your
principles. But are you genuine? Do we show up? Do we always have to be
the keynote speaker at times?
I was committed to doing this, to be both a conservative and a bridge
builder, and our team committed to that. Hardly a week went by that we
didn't answer the question, are we making an argument, or are we making
a difference?
In this town, those who make the most noise sometimes get the key
roles. But in looking back, making the difference is ultimately the
prize.
The successes? I believe it is simple; staying close to the Lord and
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the people pray and wrap their arms around us.
So many times, after spending a week in this arena, this gladiator
arena, you go back home depleted and kind of worn out. And I will never
be able to express my gratitude to the people who lifted their arms up
and prayed for us week after week.
A couple of months ago, I met Freddy in New Bern, North Carolina.
Freddy's a little street vendor with his guitar, and he had his guitar
case open and was hoping to make a few bucks. I had a chance to
harmonize with him as he played Let My Little Light Shine.
What a reminder this season that, ultimately, what our calling is, it
is to let our light shine.
I think of Luke 2; I think of all the different things in this season
that mean so much.
In this city, there are some ups and downs, there are some double-
crosses, but I can tell you, I leave today with no bitterness, no axe
to grind, not jaded, with a genuine love for my colleagues.
I specifically have to point out three that I have had the privilege
of getting to know and having dinner with, basically, for about 3\1/2\
years, almost once a week, Tuesday evenings with Trey Gowdy, Senator
Tim Scott, and the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe. I
love these men. They have impacted my life. There were times the
fellowship and the joy and the laughter, and even the merciless
cutdowns from Mr. Gowdy, were incredibly rewarding and timely.
But there are people behind the scenes here in Washington, D.C.,
names that you will never know, but people like Everette, Carmelita,
Lloyd, the people behind the scenes that continue to impact.
In closing today, I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the
people that made this possible, both in North Carolina and here in
Washington, D.C. My appreciation to Janine, Grace, Joel, Bradley, Kyle,
Phillip, Emily, Dwayne, Olga, Jerome, Amber, Cory, Ryan, Kevin,
Madeline, Dan, Alexa, Carson, Sruthi, Sean, Janae, Alison, Rudy, Kate,
Katie, Louis, Davis, Rusty, Zach, Scott, Arian, Josh, Carter, Keifer,
Dwayne, Luke, Graham, Lauren, Brian, and two chiefs, Scott and Jack,
and a deputy chief, Julie, who has been with me since the
very beginning. I am proud of you guys. We made a difference.
Mr. Speaker, I would also like to conclude by thanking my family,
Ryan, Rachel, Anna Claire, and Kelly. Thank you for allowing me to do
something that is considered pretty special by many.
To my mom and dad, thank you for investing in me and putting in the
values.
So, Mr. Speaker, I would like to close right now by expressing it may
be in the words of Andrae Crouch:
``How can I say thanks for the things You have done for me? Things so
undeserved, yet You gave to prove Your love for me; the voices of a
million angels could not express my gratitude. All that I am and ever
hope to be, I owe it all to Thee. To God be the glory.''
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend. He has been a real asset
here in the House, and I look forward to more accomplishments in the
days to come.
Speaking of people I have served with, now she is a Senator, Marsha
Blackburn of Tennessee, very proud of her home State. She is doing a
great job as a Senator, just as she did a great job in the House.
She has become the object of ridicule by a Chinese state-owned media
editor. This article was written by Christina Wong, December 3. It
says: The European Union Bureau Chief and columnist for Chinese state-
run media outlet China Daily lodged a profane insult at U.S. Senator
Marsha Blackburn, Republican from Tennessee, on Thursday in a tweet.
Blackburn, a respected conservative Senator who is a hawk on China,
tweeted Thursday: China has a 5,000 year history of cheating and
stealing. Some things never change.
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Chen Weihua, EU bureau chief and columnist for China Daily, then
responded to her tweet with: Witch, spelled with a B, Senator
Blackburn.
Chen then followed up with another tweet that said: This is the most
racist and ignorant U.S. Senator I have seen. A lifetime witch, spelled
with a B at the start of the word.
The gentlewoman retweeted his one-word reply to Blackburn. Blackburn
responded a couple of hours later in a statement. She said: ``From
Tiananmen Square to Uighur genocide, Communist China is an expert at
slaughtering populations. America will not bow down to sexist Communist
thugs.''
Breitbart News' James Pinkerton profiled Chen in May. He wrote:
``Chen Weihua works for the government-owned China Daily, reliably
cranking out articles with headlines such as `White House must
concentrate on fighting outbreak, not China-bashing,' and, `Washington
must stop making decisions which undermine WHO.'
``In other words, his journalistic output nicely coincides with the
People's Republic of China's propaganda plans, from deflecting blame
for the coronavirus away from Beijing to defending Beijing's minions at
the World Health Organization.''
Chen has previously tweeted: ``Trump and Pompeo are not even good
liars.''
Pinkerton noted that Chen bashes the President and his administration
reliably, but also eagerly, echoing top Democrats and leading never
Trumpers.
Chen has also called Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri,
another leading China hawk in the Senate, ``ignorant.'' Hawley
responded: ``#China not happy about my call to confront their economic
imperialism by ending the WTO and replacing it with a system that is
good for American workers. I love being insulted by #China state-run
press.''
Pinkerton noted that Chen has been the beneficiary of many liberal
programs in the U.S.
Chen lists on his blue-checkmark verified Twitter bio he was a John
S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and a World Press Institute
Fellow at Macalester College in Minnesota. He also listed the Freedom
Forum in Washington, D.C.
So isn't that special. Perhaps one of these institutions is where he
learned to call women witches, spelled what a B wherever it was. He is
not a very polite person and is very defensive of being part of a
misogynistic, sexist, racist, and religion-hating administration. He is
apparently proud of that. It is very unfortunate.
But I am proud of Senator Blackburn. We are known by our friends, but
we are known even more by our enemies, and Senator Blackburn has a real
enemy there.
I was reminded back early on in my time in China when we went to
China. She and I, the two of us, personally confronted, in Beijing, the
Chinese bureaucrat in charge of enforcing copyright and patent fraud,
which was just overwhelming in China. The amount that the state
appeared to not only allow but actually be involved in was pretty
staggering. At one point, either Marsha or I asked: Why do you allow
all of this patent fraud and copyright theft to go on?
The Chinese bureaucrat indicated that, actually, they don't. They
step in, and, in fact, he said the year before, they had seized the
assets from 500 different vendors who were selling copyright- or
patent-infringed goods. Whether DVDs, CDs, things that violated
Americans' patents, they seized them.
I said: So what did you do with what you seized?
I don't know Chinese law, but his indication was that, well, under
Chinese law, we can't just destroy goods that have value, so we had to
do something with them.
It appeared very clear that they seized these assets that were
violating international trade, copyright, and patent laws. If they are
not allowed to destroy such goods, then, obviously, they had to get rid
of them since they felt they had value. So, the Chinese Government must
have gotten into the business of selling copyright- and patent-
infringed goods. So, there is not a lot of comfort there.
Marsha and I did talk back then, and once you get away from the
center of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing and you get around to
different cities in China, Mr. Speaker, we were both reminded they were
so hospitable, so gracious, and so wanting you to
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have a good experience in their towns. It reminded us both of Southern
hospitality here in the U.S. The people were absolutely wonderful, Mr.
Speaker. You just had to get away from the central government before
you saw just how wonderful and fantastic the Chinese people are.
But in Beijing, you have the hotbed of Communist Party activity.
Although there are some in the United States who are wanting to get to
being a Communist nation as quickly as possible, we see, anytime there
is a Communist government, it is not good for the people at all.
Another story from Simon Kent, December 1: ``No Twitter `Fact-Check'
Warning on Chinese Official's Fake Photo of Australian Soldier
Beheading Child.''
A lot of people have seen the photo, yes, but the Chinese produced a
photo that was falsified. The Australian soldier was not about to
behead a child. It is just more fake information out of the Chinese
Communist Party.
I guess if you are Twitter, Mr. Speaker, that is not something you
would fact-check. You only want to fact-check honorable and honest
people with whom you have disagreements. You wouldn't want to fact-
check someone who is providing you a lot of money despite their
retraining camps, their lies, and their official misrepresentations.
You wouldn't want to do that because they might be tempted to cut back
the revenue to your form of business.
So, as Chris Plante says, if it weren't for double standards, they
would have no standards at all there at Twitter.
Twitter expands hate speech rules. Well, of course, you are not going
to go after people who truly are full of hate, Mr. Speaker. They think
conservatives are hateful. As a Christian, we are admonished by Jesus
to love one another. We were admonished by Jesus Himself to love the
Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul. The second is like
it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
So, Christianity is truly a religion based completely on love. It is
such an incredible thing to base a religion on, but that is what it is.
God so loved the world He gave His Son; His Son so loved the world He
gave His life. Then, you have people saying: Well, these Christians and
these churches are full of nothing but hate, when actually that is
doing what the Chinese Communist Party does. You are taking something
out of context and actually perverting the actual beliefs of
Christianity.
Twitter is expanding hate speech rules that will allow them to
continue to produce things and get revenue from the Chinese Communist
Party and not call into question their true hate of groups that might
disagree with them. You run over them with a tank if they disagree with
you even though they are unarmed. That is the kind of thing that
Twitter is embracing here.
But this story from Lucas Nolan, 3 December, says: ``Twitter has once
again expanded its hate speech policies to `prohibit language that
dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national
origin.' ''
That is really rich coming from Twitter since they embrace the
Chinese Communist Party and their hatred and their dehumanization of
Uighurs, Christians, and people who want to have more than one child,
and based on race, ethnicity, and national origin.
``Engadget reports that social media platform Twitter has expanded
its hate speech policies again, this time to `prohibit language that
dehumanizes people.' ''
And on it goes: ``The change in policy comes more than 2 years after
Twitter said that it intended to ban dehumanizing language and over 6
months from that last change to the site's policies that banned hate
speech relating to age, disability, and disease.''
So, anyway, again, if it weren't for double standards, Twitter would
have no standards at all.
This article from Rich Noyes, November 24, ``The Stealing of the 2020
Presidency: The Media Kept the Truth From Americans'': ``A new study
shows that if the media didn't apply a leftist bias to its Presidential
news coverage, Donald Trump would have comfortably won a second term as
President.
``To measure the true effect of the media's censorship on the
election, the Media Research Center asked The Polling Company to survey
1,750 Biden voters in seven swing States--Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,
Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin--six of which, all
but North Carolina, were called for Biden. We tested these voters'
knowledge of eight news stories, all important topics that our ongoing
analysis had shown the liberal news media had failed to cover properly.
We found that a huge majority, 82 percent, of Biden voters were unaware
of at least one of these key items, with 5 percent saying they were
unaware of all eight of the issues we tested.
``This lack of information proved crucial: One of every six Biden
voters we surveyed, 17 percent, said they would have abandoned the
Democratic candidate had they known the facts about one or more of
these news stories. A shift of this magnitude would have changed the
outcome in all six of the swing States won by Joe Biden, and Donald
Trump would have comfortably won a second term as President.''
Now, that is from Newsbusters. I really like those folks, but they
are wrong about that. As we saw from the results and what occurred, and
we are seeing more evidence every day, this concludes Donald Trump
would have won comfortably. But as many of us know, there would have
been more trucks with more fake ballots that would have been brought
in, so the claim would have been made anyway that Donald Trump did not
win because they just needed to know how many ballots they needed to
overcome and they would bring them in to do so.
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Consistent with that, from Just the News, David Payne--it is a story
about what has been going on.
Sworn testimony of several whistleblowers on Tuesday--and this isn't
like the fake whistleblower against President Trump that didn't
actually hear the conversation. He was basing it on double hearsay.
These are actually whistleblowers who had firsthand knowledge of what
went on. And when they testified under oath from those who say there is
no evidence, it is unfounded to say there was fraud, it is not their
fault they are saying that, it is just they are very uneducated.
So to help with that, when a witness has firsthand knowledge,
personally observe, personally saw something occur, and they put that
in a sworn affidavit, then we have evidence. It is not unfounded. I
know people that have said that. It is not their fault. They are just
ignorant, uneducated on what is evidence and what isn't. But sworn
testimony is evidence when it is first person.
And there are some exceptions to the hearsay rule that lots of
articles have been written about and discussed in legal treatises. But
in this case, it is not hearsay for most of these things that have been
produced.
But sworn testimony of several whistleblowers alleged what
one election integrity activist is calling ``potential ballot
fraud on a massive scale,'' with multiple eyewitnesses
testifying to alleged suspicious behavior in Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin.
In a press conference in Arlington, Virginia, the Amistad
Project--a civil liberties initiative of the Thomas More
Society--presented the testimony of three individuals who
claim to have witnessed apparent voting malfeasance--that
means wrongdoing for those that don't know about evidence--
during the 2020 election.
One, Jesse Morgan, a truck driver for a subcontractor with
the United States Postal Service, claimed that a trailer he
was driving, one full of potentially upwards of 288,000
ballots, disappeared from its parked location at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, U.S. Postal Service depot after Morgan dropped
it off there. Morgan had transported these ballots from
Bethpage, New York.
Well, that is interesting. You could have 288,000 voting ballots that
were produced in Bethpage, New York, and supplied to Pennsylvania--
apparently, having already been voted in. And it is possible that
people would want to give them the benefit of the doubt. It is possible
they had 288,000 people from Pennsylvania just temporarily residing in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and wanted to vote absentee in the
Pennsylvania election.
So, yeah, maybe it is possible that 288,000 Pennsylvanians were not
in Pennsylvania pursuing homemade pumpkins pies--Perry Como used to
sing--that they were actually in Bethpage, New York.
The subcontractor also reportedly experienced ``odd
behaviors'' from U.S. Postal Service personnel, behaviors
which postal experts have said in sworn statements, ``grossly
deviated from normal procedure and
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behavior,'' according to a press release from the Amistad
Project.
Mr. Speaker, by the way, for anybody that might be uneducated on the
ways of court evidence, in a civil matter such as this, the normal
standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, just the
slightest evidence more showing that conduct probably was in
appropriate. That is enough. It does not have to be beyond a reasonable
doubt unless you are getting ready to prosecute people under criminal
laws.
Once you move into the criminal realm to prosecute people guilty of
election fraud, then it does need to be beyond a reasonable doubt but
not to establish a standard for an injunction to prevent
decertification or to force decertification after certification, or to
actually declare an election invalid, even. That is a burden of more
probable than not, or probable cause rather than beyond a reasonable
doubt.
Another whistleblower, Nathan Pease of Madison, Wisconsin--
himself also a subcontractor for the U.S. Postal Service--
alleged that he was told that the postal service was planning
to backdate tens of thousands of ballots in the days after
the November 3 election in order to circumvent the ballot
submission deadline.
A third witness, Gregory Stenstrom--who testified at a
Pennsylvania legislature hearing in Gettysburg last week--
claimed to have witnessed a Dominion Voting Systems vendor
inserting jump drives into voting aggregation machines in
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
And for those that don't know, that is not appropriate under the
situation, as was here. And it really shouldn't be appropriate in any
situation. We need to do away with the ability to have some foreign-
owned counting service, like we have had in Texas, in the big cities--
no county that wasn't a big city controlled by Democratic officials
would ever allow that to happen in east Texas, west Texas, south Texas,
north Texas. But in our big cities, yes, they will hire foreign firms,
as they have, or firms funded by foreign money. They will hire them.
But they should not be, number one, connected to internet, should not
ever be susceptible of foreign ability to access information, which
means also to manipulate information if they are good hackers. And just
as I said in 2001, back when I was a felony judge in Texas and Congress
overstepped what was appropriate and ordered that every county in
America had to give up what system of voting, no matter how effective
and appropriate and protected it was, and all by electronic voting
machines, it costs, seemed like $2 billion or so dollars. It was an
unfunded mandate. But worse to me is someone who worked in our county
courthouse--I said back in 2001, this means because of Congress'
inappropriate bill they passed, that eventually elections will go to
the best--the person with the best hacker. And now, 19 years later,
that is what we have.
Mr. Speaker, but it wasn't just hacking. It was also manipulation
that wasn't hacking. There were doors to which electronic experts could
go to manipulate things. It was creating fraudulent ballots. It was--
also, as I recall, the Texas constitution itself requires that ballots
are to be numbered sequentially, and I don't believe that has been done
in quite some time.
So Texas, even though President Trump won and we picked up Republican
seats there, I would submit it would be potentially even better results
if we had ballots that comported with the Texas constitution. And I
would submit that everybody ought to be having sequentially numbered
ballots just to protect the election and voting process.
``In its press release, Amistad Project director, Phil Kline, said
the testimonies are `compelling.' ''
You see, testimony means things that were said under oath, which
means it is evidence. It is a foundation for the claims of election
fraud.
`` This evidence joins with unlawful conduct by State and local
election officials, including accepting millions of dollars of private
funds, to undermine the integrity of this election, Kline said.' In
this press release, the Amistad Project says it has collected sworn
expert testimony alleging that `over 300,000 ballots are at issue in
Arizona, 548,000 in Michigan, 204,000 in Georgia, and over 121,000 in
Pennsylvania.' ''
And in case there is wondering about whether or not that would affect
the election, that would absolutely affect the election in each of
those states.
The story from PJ Media, Tyler O'Neal, December 1, again, talks about
the truck driver that testified--which means it was under oath and it
is evidence--``He had driven thousands of ballots from Bethpage, New
York, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2 weeks before Election Day. Phil
Kline, a former attorney general of Kansas and director of the Amistad
Project of the Thomas More Society, said that the Amistad Project
corroborated the truck driver's story.''
So that is evidence.
This story by Jim Hoft: ``Colonel Phil Waldron''--that I believe he
has some former NSA folks that work with him--``tells Michigan
lawmakers truckloads of ballots for Joe Biden were inserted into the
Michigan 2020 election.''
Colonel Phil Waldron spoke tonight--this is dated December
2--at a Michigan hearing following his explosive testimony in
Arizona on Monday on the voting machines used in U.S.
elections. The Dominion systems were connected to the
internet as well, despite Dominion's claims to the contrary.
And that also--let me insert here--that also helps explains the U.S.
Government's director that was suppose to have been protecting our
election, cybersecurity, making sure it was secured. There was a puff
piece done on the director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Association--or agency. Krebs was his name, Christopher Krebs. He had
indicated in an article on Election Day that he wanted to thank his
partners in Silicon Valley. And he was also grateful--I am sure he had
someone in Dominion advising him, but Krebs said everything is good
because he talked to people that might have been involved in the fraud
and they assured him everything was good. So he said everything was
good.
Also, with our Attorney General Barr, he said he had seen no evidence
of fraud. And there are others that have said the same thing. And I
would humbly submit that all you have to do is close your eyes, stick
your fingers in your ear, and sing ``la la la'' for a long period of
time. Keep it up and you will neither see nor hear any evidence of
fraud.
So if our Attorney General can keep that up, then he will continue
not to see or hear any evidence of fraud. So, hopefully, he has not
been listening to what I have had to say here in the House because,
here, again, it would cause him to demand to see and hear the actual
evidence, and he may not want to do that so he can stay consistent.
But the evidence is there. It is evidence. It is sworn. And as this
article points out:
According to Waldron, the United States has a copy of the
traffic and the packets of information that were sent to
Germany on election night.
Yesterday, the first expert at the Arizona State
Legislature hearing with Rudy Giuliani was U.S. cybersecurity
expert, Colonel Phil Waldron.
And Phil is an impressive man, an impressive person when it comes to
cybersecurity.
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``Colonel Phil Waldron spoke first at the Arizona hearing about the
voting machines used in the U.S. election. The Dominion systems were
connected to the internet as well, despite Dominion's claims to the
contrary. The records within the system can be manipulated by outside
parties and insiders as well.
``On Wednesday night, Colonel Waldron told the committee that they
have witnesses now who delivered truckloads of ballots for Joe Biden
from New York to Pennsylvania. Waldron said they likely did the same
thing in Wisconsin.
``Waldron explained that Democrats inserted truckloads of fraudulent
ballots into the fraudulent 2020 election.''
Many people saw the video from Georgia that was played yesterday,
last evening. This article from The Gateway Pundit, December 3, says:
``Earlier today Cristina Laila reported on the explosive video that was
revealed during the Georgia ballot counting at the State Farm Arena
where crooked Democrats pulled out suitcases full of ballots and began
counting these ballots without election monitors in the room.
``Trump's legal team showed a video from the State Farm Arena
tabulation center when poll workers were told to leave at 10:25 p.m.
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``A few `workers' stayed behind and were seen pulling suitcases of
full of ballots out from under tables to be tabulated.''
So that seems strange, if you believe that the mainstream media never
reports anything but facts, because you can, as I did yesterday, go
online and put into Google anything about vote counting being suspended
during election night. All of the first entries you get tell you that
it was fact-checked; it is not true; it is fraudulent representation.
It is not true; there was never any suspension of vote counting for
anytime in the swing States.
In other words, even though you heard it and you saw it happening on
TV, don't believe your lying eyes and ears; believe what we tell you,
because we are coming to you through the internet, so you can trust us,
but don't trust your lying eyes or ears.
Anyway, in that video, it is very clear, they did pull out suitcases
full of ballots that were--whether intentional or not, they were hidden
under tables, and they weren't pulled out until after the monitors and
the other vote counters were ordered to leave, that they were stopping
the vote counting, and they did leave. That is when the ballots come
out from under the table and the counting of those ballots begins. It
is absolutely extraordinary.
But some of us have known that this kind of activity has been going
on. We know that there were electronic manipulations in Dallas County
in 2018. It is really unfortunate. Our Texas Attorney General had a
chance to be a national hero, had they stepped in, utilized evidence
from there. And I have heard people say, Well, I heard about that.
There was really nothing to that.
Well, I have been following that for two years and trying to get
people in law enforcement to do something about it. But they avoided
the chance to be a national hero and refused to go after the fraud that
existed in the 2018 primary and general election in Dallas County,
again, by a firm that had foreign money supporting it, and they did the
counting for Dallas County. But since nothing was done there, then the
people were free to continue that type of operation in the national
election.
Here is an article from Joel Pollak. ``Attorneys Sidney Powell and
Lin Wood told a rally in Atlanta, Georgia . . . Republicans should not
vote in the January 5 runoff election for U.S. Senate unless State
authorities rectify problems in the State's voting system.''
And I haven't talked to Lin Wood or Sidney Powell about that, but I
would imagine, knowing them, that they were trying to make the point
that this system needs to be cleaned up before the election on January
5, because we do need people to vote in that election--not multiple
times, but legally; not people come in and illegally vote, but people
vote legally as to who they want to represent them in the U.S. Senate.
So here is a story from the Epoch Times, Christina Kim, November 28:
``The complaint against Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
and Governor Gretchen Whitmer, marks the beginning of Powell's lawsuit
against the State.
``Some of the allegations are repeated claims from Michigan and other
States. Republican challengers were unable to `meaningfully observe,'
and workers were instructed to backdate ballots.
``Other claims are newer.
``Expert witness, Russell James Ramsland, Jr., works with the Allied
Security Operations Group. In the past, he has worked with NASA and
MIT.
``Ramsland said there were four `physically impossible' `spikes
totaling almost 385,000 ballots allegedly processed in a combined
interval of 2 hours and 38 minutes.' He concluded that `Dominion alone
is responsible for the injection, or fabrication, of 290,000 illegal
votes in Michigan that must be disregarded.' This is nearly twice the
number of ballots by which Biden is leading Trump, which is
approximately 150,000 ballots.
``Dr. David Keshavarz-Nia has a Ph.D. in engineering and technology
and received advanced training from the CIA, NSA and DHS. In his sworn
statement . . . ''--and again, since it is a sworn statement, it means
the allegations are not unfounded and there is evidence of what is
alleged--`` `that USB memory cards were used to facilitate
administrative' backdoor access `to disrupt polling operations and
impact ballot counting across Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona
and Wisconsin.'
``He also said, after a detailed analysis of the New York Times data,
in his expert judgment, `the vote count distribution in Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, are not based on
normal system operation. Instead, they are caused by fraudulent
electronic manipulation of the targeted voting machines.'
``Another affidavit was submitted by someone whose name and personal
information was redacted. This person was an electronic intelligence
analyst with extensive experience as a white hat hacker used by some of
the top election specialists in the world.
``The expert alleged that a search of Edison Research showed they had
an Iranian server and there are records showing China accessing
Dominion Voting's servers.'' Wow. ``Edison Research reports the vote
count tabulation to Decision Desk HQ for election results.
``According to the affidavit, the digital forensics analysis shows
there is `unambiguous evidence that Dominion Voter Systems and Edison
Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue
actors, such as Iran and China.' ''
Now, this is an area that does require expertise, and that is why you
need experts to come in and testify about it. It is true that simply
making a statement under oath in an area that requires expertise may
not be considered evidence until a judge--going back to the Merrell Dow
decision of the U.S. Supreme Court--the judge became the gatekeeper,
had to make inquiries of the expert outside the hearing of the jury,
and determine whether or not this person was expert in an area in which
he was proffered as a witness, and if the judge so finds, then that is,
indeed, sworn evidence before the court.
``The complaint asks the Court to provide emergency relief to de-
certify Wayne County's results, stop Benson and Whitmer from
transmitting the State's certifications to the Electoral College, and
`to transmit certified election results that President Donald Trump is
the winner of the election' in Michigan, among other requests.
``Michigan's Senate Committee is set to meet next Tuesday, December
1, to hear testimony about absentee ballot counting at Detroit's TCF
center.''
You know, this is a matter that should be thoroughly investigated by
all areas of the Government, the three branches of Government,
including--for those who we are told are recent college graduates that
know the Three Stooges' names better than the three branches of
Government--it is the executive branch, from the President all the way
down; the legislative branch, including Congress and the Senate; and
also the judiciary branch, where you would ultimately come to have
judicial decisions made over these things.
Those are all important. We all ought to be investigating this. It is
part of our job as Members of Congress. That is what we need to be
doing.
Yet, it is worth noting--and I think important to note--that as we
heard the majority leader talking about concerns about COVID and
businesses going bankrupt and not being able to operate and, of course,
the unconstitutional shutdown of churches, where the Government does
prohibit the free exercise of religion, those matters should concern
everybody and especially about who you place as your servant in the
Government.
But we hear the words from some people in this body about how
critical it is that we do something about COVID. One of the first
things we should have done--we had over $120 billion that was unused
that was authorized and appropriated in the original Payroll Protection
Program. It is just sitting there. All we have got to do is say yes, go
back and allow that to be used by businesses in trouble under the same
conditions, or we can modify them, and we have a bill.
And Republicans have been, We don't care. Put a Democrat name on
there. That is fine. Let's just do it to help businesses avoid going
out of business. Instead, what we took up was the tiger bill. We took
that up pretty quick this week.
And as my friend, Dr. DesJarlais, pointed out, if you look at the
time that we spent in here voting on the
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tiger bill, that, as I understand, only pertains to one place that
keeps tigers, that during that period we voted on the tiger bill, there
have been more people die of COVID than have died from tigers over the
last 25 years. Yet, we rush in here to do the tiger bill.
I know there is a lot of use, metaphorically, of the red pill/blue
pill from The Third Eye or The Matrix. And it is intriguing. You know,
the red pill is supposed to show you truth, what is really going on,
and the blue pill, you will just be in blissful ignorance. I couldn't
help but be reminded of that.
When we are in here, we are not passing anything to help with COVID,
not to help businesses going out of business. We are passing what ought
to be called the blue pill law. We are not going to fix your problems,
but we are hoping you will smoke dope so that you can--marijuana. So we
are--I didn't vote for it--but appropriating a bunch of money to make
marijuana more accessible, not for medicinal purposes--a lot of us are
okay with that--but for widespread recreational use.
So that if you are bothered--whether it is seeing an election stolen
or seeing your business go bankrupt, because the Government won't you
let you open, or seeing your church being closed and the preacher being
taken down for someone who failed to wear a mask--smoke some dope. That
is the message of the week. And that is what we did this week.
So that is the message from the majority. Go smoke some dope, take
the blue pill, and you will enjoy life so much more.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward Members of the Senate or the
President, including by repeating remarks made elsewhere that would be
improper if spoken in the Member's own words.
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