Political Quotes

“In closing, this last weekend, the Associated Press talked about the waning days of this Congress and expected to have a do-nothing Congress. That is easy to say, but in this case, today, we are showing, on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, with our friends in the Senate, that there are major pieces of legislation that will save countless billions of dollars and provide better information to the American people and to the watchdogs who want to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in our government. So this is not a controversial bill because it has taken years of hard work to get it right. But, in fact, this is a major piece of legislation. I want to close by thanking Senator Carper, Senator Coburn, Senator Portman, and Senator Warner, the author of the bill today, in addition to Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and of course, my ranking member, Congressman Cummings. This has been bipartisan. It is one of the many pieces of bipartisan legislation that take a long time, they hold a lot of hearings, but at the end of the day, the American people can trust that the American people's work does get done, in spite of some of the things we are unable to do. This is a major piece of legislation. I want to thank, lastly, leadership for bringing this to the floor today in a timely fashion so that we can get it to the President's desk for signing next week. Madam Speaker, I urge support and yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Black).…”