[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12156]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              I AM STUNNED

  (Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. Mr. Speaker, I come this morning 
rather stunned because I am witnessing comments by Presidential 
candidate Trump and Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence that stuns 
me.
  Today I heard that Pence basically said that Vladimir Putin has been 
a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama in his country. And 
then, of course, Donald Trump is arguing that the Russians are not 
meddling in American Presidential politics, despite the fact he was 
interviewing on a Russian television station.
  What is going on here? Is this patriotism? I don't know why all of a 
sudden we have a Presidential candidate who is praising or talking 
about basically a dictator being better than the President of the 
United States of America.

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