[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 100 (Monday, June 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5449-H5450]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PROTECT SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McCarthy) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, this is the third time I come to the floor 
to protect our Supreme Court Justices and their families. Speaker 
Pelosi said this bill would come to the floor this week, but it is not 
listed on our schedule.
  The Speaker also said last week in her press conference that ``no one 
is in danger. . . .''
  Think about that, Mr. Speaker. The Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, last week, in a press conference, said no one is in 
danger. This is just after a day or 2 when a man came clear across the 
country from California to kill Justice Kavanaugh. He was on the 
street, had a weapon. He had zip ties. He had a plan.
  At the same time, the Speaker says no one is in danger. But at the 
same time, the Senate already unanimously passed a bill with agreement 
from all 100 Senators. That wasn't passed last week; that was last 
month.
  For 1 month, the majority of this House, Mr. Speaker, has held that 
bill,

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a bill that every single Senator, Republican and Democrat and 
Independent, passed in the Senate. It simply states that we will 
protect the Supreme Court.

  Mr. Speaker, you have probably noticed, as you came on to this 
Capitol, the intensity of force you see out in front of the Capitol. Is 
that because something is happening here today? No. It is in 
anticipation of a decision by the Supreme Court.
  Everybody in the country knows that there could be a decision--not 
knowing which way it would go--but the anticipation is that people need 
protection in the Capitol.
  At the same time that is happening, that you are protecting the 
Capitol, you are holding a bill to deny protection to those Justices.
  It makes me wonder why. Why? Why, if 100 Senators approve it, would 
it hold here for an entire month?
  Why, even after holding it for a month, somebody travels all the way 
across the country with one thing in mind, to kill a Supreme Court 
Justice, gets arrested, and still the Speaker of the House will not 
move that bill that the majority actually holds?
  Just so the country can understand, no one on this side of the aisle, 
the Republican side of the aisle, objects to this bill. We agreed that 
we would agree to a unanimous consent.
  All somebody had to do was make the motion and that could be on the 
President's desk; it could be signed; and they could be protected.
  But for some reason, Mr. Speaker, the Democrats on the other side of 
the aisle, even though 100 Senators had agreed with us, everyone in 
your party on the Senate side said ``yes,'' you still say ``no.''
  I do not understand that. I do not understand why we would risk that. 
I do not understand why you will make sure the Capitol is protected 
right now, knowing that something could happen in the Supreme Court 
this week, but you won't protect those Justices.
  Now, the Speaker came to the floor at a press conference last week 
and said nobody, no one, is in danger. How can you make that statement 
in the same week someone is arrested in your neighborhood trying to 
kill you? It makes no sense.
  Mr. Speaker, if for some reason that we continue to come to the 
floor, that you feel some pressure on that bill, but you change it, the 
country will know why because if you change the bill and move it back 
to the Senate, you are trying to kill it. You are trying to delay it. 
That is exactly what you are doing.
  You can take a bill that every single Senator voted for and send it 
to the President to be signed. If you think something else needs to be 
added, run it by itself.
  But if you want to ping-pong it and delay the process, I think that 
is wrong. I think you are jeopardizing people's lives. I think you are 
jeopardizing the safety of the Supreme Court. I think you are playing 
more games than anybody in this country can understand, and we do not 
understand why because there has been no clear answer.
  Why would you hold the bill for more than a month?
  Why would you hold the bill after somebody is arrested who traveled 
across the country to kill a Justice? Why would you continue to hold 
the bill now?
  If you change it, you are showing the country what you really 
believe. You don't want the bill to pass. You want to delay it longer.
  There is no excuse. There is no reason to delay this bill. This 
should be law, and the Justices should be protected.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table 
S. 4160, the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, and ask for immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of 
January 10, 2022, the House is in session solely for the purpose of 
conducting morning-hour debate. Therefore, that unanimous consent 
request cannot be entertained.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, later in this day, it could. There is no 
excuse why this bill continues to be held, and there will be no excuse 
if you try to change it to delay it. That is just a tactic, Mr. 
Speaker, and I believe you thought it would be wrong as well.

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