Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, when we have someone special in our districts like that, sometimes with the chaos around here, it is hard finding time. Mr. Speaker, one of the things I wanted to do this evening is to start to build on a theme that I have done in the past, and I hope to be able to do over the coming months. But it is a little difficult right now because, let's be honest, the House is spending money at a pace where it is really hard for the Joint Economic Committee and even my own staff to try to keep up. We are going to talk about what is going on, a couple of things I really want us to start to put in the Record, talk about, and get our heads around. I have an absolute fixation of a moral obligation to the working poor in this country and an understanding of what happened in 2018 and 2019 when the working poor, the value of their labor--and understand, for many of us who have graduate degrees and those things, who can work behind a computer, great. Our skill set is what we are selling. For much of the workforce, if you didn't finish high school or you have moderate skill sets, your labor is your value. What is going on here right now is almost a type of economic violence to that labor value. Yet, I am not sure my brothers and sisters on the other side even see it. So, let's first delve into a little bit of what is going on at the border.…”