[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5493-H5494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 PROTECTION FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

  (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, after three unanimous consent requests 
of mine that were blocked, Congress will finally vote to provide 
Supreme Court Justices and their families with more security.
  I am glad this bill is coming to the floor as is. The Senate passed 
it unanimously, 100-0, more than a month ago. Madam Speaker, the House 
Democrats have delayed it for more than a month.
  The question the American public asks is why? Why would you delay it?
  We have all known that additional security has been necessary since 
the Dobbs opinion was leaked last month. Justice Kavanaugh was targeted 
by an armed and dangerous man who flew clear across the country to kill 
him. He had zip ties. He had a plan.
  Far-left groups have plans to target Justice Amy Coney Barrett and 
her children. They put out where their children go to school. But 
Congress kept it here for a month--for a month. These unnecessary 
delays put the safety of the Justices and their families in danger.
  By passing the bill as is, we are sending a clear message to the 
leftwing radicals: You cannot intimidate the Supreme Court Justices. I 
hope we all take that message to heart.
  How can we forget what Senator Schumer said? He didn't just say it--
he screamed it--on the steps of the Supreme Court. ``You will pay the 
price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful 
decisions.''
  I don't know what he meant by, ``You will pay the price,'' because 
the Supreme Court Justices aren't up for an election. It couldn't be 
that they would lose at the polls. They are lifetime appointments.
  Now, I don't know if that young man who came all the way from 
California to kill a Justice, if that is what he thought Schumer was 
saying, but what was he saying, ``You will pay the price''?
  I hope Senator Schumer understands that his words have consequences. 
I believe he should apologize for contributing to this heated climate.
  With that said, again, I am glad this bill is finally coming to the 
floor. It should not have been this hard or taken this long. Every 
single person in the Senate voted for it: Republican, Democrat, 
Independent. It sat here for a whole month. Even though we came

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to the floor and asked for unanimous consent to bring it forward, we 
were denied.
  It should not have taken a threat against Justice Kavanaugh to force 
action, a threat that even Speaker Pelosi dismissed in her press 
conference. She said, ``Everybody will be fine.''
  But at the end of the day, this is the better bill, and I am glad it 
will be heading to the President's desk without any poison pills to 
ping it back to the Senate, to delay it further. This is a big victory.
  Now, let's work to defend our justice system for everyone by 
upholding the rule of law which is under attack daily in our cities. We 
can't uphold the rule of law when there is looting, when cities and 
police stations are being burned down, when criminals are coddled 
instead of locked up.
  Now that this Congress has come together to condemn intimidation 
against Supreme Court Justices, let's take the next step to keep 
America safe. Let's support our police, not defund them. Let's enforce 
all the laws on the books like the law that prohibits protesting 
outside Justices' homes. Even President Biden encouraged people to do 
that.
  Let's get tough on crime so that every American can feel safe in 
their homes and in their communities. Just in my home State, back in 
the home city of our Speaker, San Francisco, the people had a big 
voice. They have just recalled their district attorney because of 
crime.
  It is not for me to give any political advice to the other side of 
the aisle, but if you want to know what the Republican registration in 
San Francisco is, it is 6.8 percent. I think your message of defunding 
the police by this majority party, and I think your message of not 
upholding the law, the American public doesn't want that.
  They want to feel safe, just as a Supreme Court Justice does. They 
want to be able to go do their jobs and not feel they are being 
intimidated.
  Let's get tough on crime. We want the American public to feel safe in 
their homes and their communities. They want to feel safe. Those are 
the things that would create a safer, stronger America, just like we 
had before.
  I will make this one promise. If Democrats don't do it during this 
Congress, I promise you we will in the next Congress, because there is 
definitely going to be a change.

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