"It's time for Congress to return to normal order.

The Americans recoiled from the heinous spectacle shown by white extremists marching in Charlottesville to propagate their anti-American ideology of "blood and soil". In their racism, which is hated for us, there is nothing that could correspond to the strength of the people created in freedom, and making up 323 million souls of very different origins, with different opinions, which, however, are all equal according to law.

Most of us share the values ??of Sheather Hier, not the depraved person who took her life from her. We are a country that led the free world to victory over fascism and sent communism to the dustbin of history. We are a superpower that organized not an empire but a new international union of free and independent states that freed more people from poverty and tyranny than anyone even thought possible in the era of colonies and autocracies.

Our shared values ??define us more than our differences. And the recognition of these shared values ??will help to look forward, through our today's challenges, if we have the wisdom to again trust these values.

Congress will return from vacation next week, confronted with the continuing impasse that we are moving from one created crisis to another. We are inadequate not only in relation to our most serious problems, but also in relation to our routine duties. Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem to be convinced that the majority exists to impose their will on the minority only with small concessions, and the minority exists to prevent the party of power from doing anything important.

So we understand management. Our entire system of government, with its checks and balances, with its bicameral congress, with the protection of minority rights, was intended to compromise. It rarely works smoothly or quickly. This was never expected.

It requires a pragmatic approach to solving problems, even by the most passionate party members. A compromise between the opposing sides is needed to protect the interests that we all share. We can, of course, fight, creating hell for ourselves, only for making our ideas prevail. But we must respect each other or at least respect the fact that we need each other.

It never sounded right, than today, when Congress must manage together with a president who does not have experience in public office, who is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and behavior.

We must respect its authority and constitutional responsibilities. We must, wherever we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We are not accountable to him. We are accountable to the American people. We must be diligent in complying with our responsibility to serve as controllers of his authority. And we must put our self-identification and responsibility as members of the Congress higher than our party affiliation.

This is the opportunity to show that ordinary, decent, free people can competently, respectfully and calmly manage and prove the value of the US Congress for the great country that we serve ".

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