Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this conference report. You know, at a time when California has 12.4 percent unemployment, and my district's even higher at 16.5 in my home county of Kern County, my constituents are asking me, What is being done to create jobs? For the folks that have been following this debate today, this is just another example of Washington not listening to their concerns. Instead of policies that promote private sector job growth, this bill would create more government. This bill before us today would create a new bureau at the Federal Reserve with sweeping authority and a budget to create plenty of new government jobs in Washington, D.C. It also creates a new office of Financial research, empowered to collect personal information about all of our international transactions. This office can actually issue subpoenas to get the information these unelected bureaucrats want to have about us. But aside from the personal concerns we may have about this, what is being done to help create a private sector job? Well, this is not job creation for families in my district. This is just part of the majority's continuation of an overreach and expansion of government.”