Political Quotes

“I yield myself just 1 minute. I know the gentleman didn't mean to when he was talking about Maya, but he did say that her pay has been frozen for 10 years. I'm sure he meant 2 years and, if we enact this, a third year. Mr. Wolf is a dedicated servant of this country, but he did say a couple of things that I'd like to touch on. First of all, when we talk about the men and women of Congress and when they say they do it for the right reasons--they do it because they care--we're doing it with 11.5 percent less money in the House on both sides of the aisle. So, in fact, in many cases, we're paying the same or less than we were paying before. We've made those cuts. The Federal workforce has not seen an 11.5 percent reduction in actual dollars spent, but our offices have made those cuts under the Speaker's leadership. Lastly, I certainly believe when we talk about Walter Reed that we should include what the commander of Walter Reed told me on Monday of this week, and that was that he is now in the process of planning whom to let go. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”