Political Quotes

“Let me thank our ranking member for your tremendous leadership and for yielding. And I also thank Chairman Ryan for a very spirited markup. I rise in strong opposition to the Ryan budget. And let me just say as a new member of the Budget Committee, I've had the opportunity now to really get into the weeds of the budget, which really is full of choices, but those choices would undermine our Nation's future for the continued benefit of special interests and the wealthy. The bottom line: that's what this budget does. It would dismantle government, it would increase inequality and leave the most vulnerable people on their own. We should reject this warped vision of America, and we should call this budget for what it is. Republicans call it a ``path to prosperity,'' but it really is a path to poverty for the middle class, for working families, for children and for our seniors. {time} 1850 The fact of the matter is, you cannot pretend to fight poverty while you make brutal cuts to the very programs that lift millions of Americans out of poverty. The Republican budget would make devastating cuts that will increase child hunger, cut off millions of seniors from access to health care, and throw struggling families off TANF during the middle of a jobs crisis.…”