Kamlager-Dove Discusses Speaker Johnson on SiriusXM's P.O.T.U.S. Channel with Laura Coates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 26, 2023
Media Contact: Maya Valentine | maya.valentine@mail.house.gov
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) spoke with Laura Coates on SiriusXM’s P.O.T.U.S. Channel about the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Speaker Mike Johnson, and keeping the government open. Below are excerpts from her interview.
ON MASS SHOOTING IN LEWISTON, MAINE
“It is incredibly tragic what has happened in Maine… [Democrats] [have] a Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. We meet regularly. We have signed discharge petition petitions looking for five Republicans to also sign on, so that we can debate gun safety reform laws, and they refuse to do it. I believe that the Republican Party, under the chokehold of the NRA, has decided that it is going to condone the killing, the mass murders, of innocent Americans throughout this country because they refuse to take up the issues of rational, reasonable gun safety laws that most Americans want.”
ON SPEAKER JOHNSON
“[Speaker Mike Johnson] wants a national abortion ban. He was one of the folks who voted to shut down the government [last month]. He led the crusade to decertify the election. He helped with the amicus brief to push…the decertification of the election…[that] allow[ed] this attempted coup to happen by our former president. He was against the pregnant women in the Workers Fairness Act…the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act… legislation codifying the right to contraception and marriage equality. He's against protecting victims of sexual assault. He celebrated the overturning Roe v. Wade. He's a stone-cold killer of freedoms, and he's coming for the rest of the freedoms that we have.”
“…I think the moderate Republicans that voted for him, we are going to challenge them on this vote every single day up until 2024. They need to explain to their voters why they want…[MAGA Mike] as their Speaker. And yes, as Speaker, he has a responsibility to help move this House of Representatives and work with the Senate and President Biden to keep the government open. And so what does that mean, especially coming from someone who voted to shut the government down just three weeks ago? We've got wars popping off everywhere, and we have to lean in, and that will require a lot of diplomacy as President Biden is doing but also military aid and support. Can this person step up on behalf of the American people everywhere – Rs and Ds – to say we have to keep this government open, because last I checked, that means paying people to do the work of the government to keep it running, to save American people, to keep American people employed, to help them with their health care.”
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