
READ: Liz Cheney's remarks on the House floor on the night before her expected removal from leadership post
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Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, gave a defiant speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives on the eve of a GOP conference meeting where Cheney is expected to be removed from her leadership position. Here are her remarks from Tuesday evening, provided by the Wyoming Republican's office:
"Madam Speaker, I rise tonight to discuss freedom and our constitutional duty to protect it. "I have been privileged to see first-hand how powerful and how fragile freedom is. 28 years ago, I stood outside a polling place, a schoolhouse in western Kenya. Soldiers had chased away people lined up to vote. A few hours later, the people began streaming back in, risking further attack, undaunted in their determination to exercise their right to vote.
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