‘You’re Jeopardizing People’s Lives’: McCarthy Rages at Pelosi After Supreme Court Security Bill Delayed
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McCARTHY: “And, 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’re trying to kill it, you’re trying to delay it. That’s exactly what you’re 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’s wrong. I think you’re jeopardizing people’s lives. I think you’re jeopardizing the safety of the Supreme Court. And I think you’re 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’s arrested, that traveled across the country, to kill a justice? Why would you continue to hold the bill now? But if you change it, you're 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.”
