Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, before my closing statements, I want to put on the Record that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin) had said earlier that, in Rules Committee last night, Republicans gushed over the Senate resolution, and that is actually not accurate. What we did is, after Mr. Schiff made some disparaging remarks about House Republicans, if they didn't vote for the House resolution like the Senate Republicans did, that we didn't care about the issue, then I merely pointed out the differences between the Senate version and the House version, and so that is how that came about. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I will just summarize the bills before us today: One, creates government bureaucrats with no real authority; Two, diverts money meant to protect Americans from terrorism, gangs, and natural disasters; Three, continues the obsession by my Democratic colleagues to bash the President and others and is a political tool. The Democrats ran on kitchen table issues. Instead, week after week, they prioritized the demands of the radical leftwing activists over the needs of the American people. Mr. Speaker, I urge ``no'' on the previous question, ``no'' on the underlying measure, and I yield back the balance of my time.”