Political Quotes

“As the founder of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, I rise today to continue talking about the ongoing crisis of poverty in our country. Yesterday, unfortunately, with the supplemental poverty report, we learned that poverty continues to impact nearly 50 million Americans, including 16 million children all across our country and in every congressional district. My home State of California tops the list, followed by our Nation's capital--the District of Columbia--Arizona, Florida, and Georgia. On this election day, low-income Americans, the working poor, middle- income Americans--every American--spoke loudly and clearly. They voted for strengthening the middle class and for putting people back to work, and they voted for Congress to get back to doing the work of the American people: to strengthen our economy for all Americans and to create economic opportunities that will lift millions of families out of poverty and into the middle class. Most importantly, the American people voted to reject job-killing cuts and a tax on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. What they don't want is for our country to be rushed into urgent budget decisions by the false threat of a so-called ``fiscal cliff.'' Mr. Speaker, I don't buy it, and the American people don't believe it either. This economic and political gridlock is just another political cliff created by the hostage-taking obstructionism of the Tea Party- controlled Congress.…”