Political Quotes

“First let me thank our ranking member, Nita Lowey, for yielding, and also I want to thank her for her tremendous leadership on this committee. And also I want to thank Chairman Rogers. Both of these great individuals really have worked together day and night to bring this bill forward on a bipartisan basis, and I have to salute and thank you both for that because I know it was very, very difficult. But we did it. And also to the staff, I, too, want to salute and thank the staff, including my staff, for their tremendous work in trying to balance all of the priorities so that we can have a bill that all of us can support. While I voted against the budget resolution, I am encouraged that this bill will restore a majority--not all, but a majority--of the harmful sequester and bring some relief to struggling communities and families who are living, quite frankly, on the edge. As a member of the Budget and the Appropriations Committees, I am encouraged that passing this bill will get us out of this cycle of governing by crisis. This bill makes important investments in early childhood education, environmental protection, HIV-AIDS, and law enforcement. It increases our support for the United Nations and humanitarian relief efforts in Syria. And even with these increases, funding for these critical programs, if you ask me, still remains much too low.…”