Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, today, I rise in opposition to the resolution, but before I go into that part, I was thinking. Today doesn't feel like it is a day that we are debating chickens and bats. It feels strangely like Groundhog Day and that we are doing this over and over again. Anyway, Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the resolution. Like the one we just saw, this resolution doesn't do anything the American people have asked for. In my 20 years in Congress, no constituent has ever asked me what we are doing to put the northern long-eared bat on the brink of extinction. I suspect I am not alone. That raises a question. If the Republicans aren't answering to the American people with these absurd resolutions, who are they answering to? Unfortunately, the answer is the same as it has been since the beginning of this Congress. Nowhere is the answer clearer than on the Natural Resources Committee, where we see countless hearings and bills just like this one that attack the Endangered Species Act and our other fundamental environmental protections like the National Environmental Policy Act. To put it simply, the GOP's environmental and energy agenda is designed for one constituency and one constituency only--the polluting industry. If you have any doubts, let's just do a brief recap.…”