Rep. Gregory Meeks

So I would have to, you know...

before we get out of here next week, is to look at it to make a determination.

But you can see how Congress is currently operating with this Republican leadership.

Everything seems to have to be done by a motion to discharge.

We cannot get anything on the floor so that we can vote in regular order.

It is

such craziness that's going on.

I've been in Washington for a long time, a member of Congress for 27 years, and I've never seen anything like this.

And so though I believe a number of votes, if we had the opportunity to vote for them on the floor, the Speaker and the President has blocked them.

And so the only recourse that members are having is to try to work with motions to discharge and get 218 votes as what took place with the Epstein vote.

Well, look, they are illegal in the way that it's working now.

I think that, number one, you know, you first heard that the president was down off the coast of Venezuela because of drugs.

Clearly, by taking this oil tanker, it's not about drugs.

And clearly, you should have seen, if you could take an oil tanker in the way that they have, that you don't have to shoot down boats in the way and kill people in the way that they have.

So it is not about drugs.

It's about regime change to one degree and getting access to Venezuelan oil.

Those seem to be the main motivations of the president of the United States.

And this is not the way that we generally have historically operated in the United States.

This is really how Russia operates.

And so we are losing our values, as we've seen from the national security report that came out that says, you know, Russia, China, and the United States, forget about our friends and allies and how do we work with them.