Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, histrionics and misdirection won't cover the historical hypocrisy of the reckless spending of Democrats who now even choose to keep parts of the government shut down. Under the Biden administration, the national debt grew by an unprecedented--unprecedented--$8.5 trillion. By the way, this used to be a bipartisan issue. When the gentleman mentioned Bill Clinton, I think: Yeah, that is the last time everybody came together from both parties that actually produced a balanced budget. The gentleman asks: Well, why don't Republicans do it now? It is because we would like to invite the other side to do it with us. We would like to invite the other side to do it with us, but they don't want to do it with us. In fact, the gentleman just basically announced that he would like to repeal the tax act and give us the largest tax increase in national history. What did we get from the runaway spending of Joe Biden? When Biden-Harris took over in January, inflation was at 1.4 percent. By the middle of the term it was over 9 percent.”