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Representative Tom Suozzi

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146 total appearances

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

He's a Republican. He said, hey, you can't fire this guy. It doesn't make any sense. And they reinstated the guy and said, oh, we're going to give him from now until June 2nd and we'll make another decision on June 2nd. So everybody's like, okay, you know, the Republicans and Democrats, for the New Yorkers especially, are standing up and they're not going to do this again.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

He's a Republican. He said, hey, you can't fire this guy. It doesn't make any sense. And they reinstated the guy and said, oh, we're going to give him from now until June 2nd and we'll make another decision on June 2nd. So everybody's like, okay, you know, the Republicans and Democrats, for the New Yorkers especially, are standing up and they're not going to do this again.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Well, now they just did it again like literally a couple days ago and they fired these 16 more people again. That's right.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Well, now they just did it again like literally a couple days ago and they fired these 16 more people again. That's right.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

You know, when everything's said and done, this whole thing's been very reckless. Yeah. You know, they said we're going to cut $2 trillion. And they said we're going to cut $1 trillion. Billion, yeah. Now they're down to $150 trillion. And it's going to end up costing them $150 trillion in lawsuits and rehiring people and loss of productivity. But forget about that. It's reckless.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

You know, when everything's said and done, this whole thing's been very reckless. Yeah. You know, they said we're going to cut $2 trillion. And they said we're going to cut $1 trillion. Billion, yeah. Now they're down to $150 trillion. And it's going to end up costing them $150 trillion in lawsuits and rehiring people and loss of productivity. But forget about that. It's reckless.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So- I think that what we can do is Brian and I can get our colleagues, Democrats and Republicans. This is a kind of a no brainer. I think Brian would agree with me. Brian, you agree, right? I do. We would team up together. We'd get our 50 members to come out and say, you know, you got to bring these people back and bring some heft to hold the administration account.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So- I think that what we can do is Brian and I can get our colleagues, Democrats and Republicans. This is a kind of a no brainer. I think Brian would agree with me. Brian, you agree, right? I do. We would team up together. We'd get our 50 members to come out and say, you know, you got to bring these people back and bring some heft to hold the administration account.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Now the president is going to say, I didn't mean to fire these guys. They shouldn't have fired these guys. I'm sure he's saying that. I didn't know that happened. But unless we can bring, there's so much going on out here, flood the zone, that it's hard to bring attention to individual issues.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Now the president is going to say, I didn't mean to fire these guys. They shouldn't have fired these guys. I'm sure he's saying that. I didn't know that happened. But unless we can bring, there's so much going on out here, flood the zone, that it's hard to bring attention to individual issues.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So by getting the 50 of us to work together to bring attention to this, I think that we can help to reinstate.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So by getting the 50 of us to work together to bring attention to this, I think that we can help to reinstate.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Then you end up with hunger and you end up with AIDS and you end up with other problems.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

Then you end up with hunger and you end up with AIDS and you end up with other problems.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

And then the terrorists come in and use that as a vehicle to come in and provide assistance to people in their desperate conditions. And then they get a foothold in it. The symbol of Elon Musk with a chainsaw, which they thought was so positive, he thought was so positive at the time, is really a symbol of what they did. They came in with a chainsaw to cut stuff which required a scaffold.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

And then the terrorists come in and use that as a vehicle to come in and provide assistance to people in their desperate conditions. And then they get a foothold in it. The symbol of Elon Musk with a chainsaw, which they thought was so positive, he thought was so positive at the time, is really a symbol of what they did. They came in with a chainsaw to cut stuff which required a scaffold.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So with everything said and done, this is not popular for me to say amongst my own party. It's not popular for me to say with my family even. I think it's going to work out.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

So with everything said and done, this is not popular for me to say amongst my own party. It's not popular for me to say with my family even. I think it's going to work out.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

I think that the American people responding and saying they are dissatisfied with the way things are going is going to be reflected in every district throughout the country where the politicians are going to have to respond to their people. They're going to be more afraid of the people than they are of Donald Trump picking them out.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Are You There, Congress? with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi

I think that the American people responding and saying they are dissatisfied with the way things are going is going to be reflected in every district throughout the country where the politicians are going to have to respond to their people. They're going to be more afraid of the people than they are of Donald Trump picking them out.