Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, we have several of my colleagues here to join us. We will just continue the discussion that we had before. I think I'll move to the other side so I will have the easel available to me. If Ms. Jan Schakowsky will come join us. Mr. Ellison can carry on. I see Mr. Tonko is now in the Chair. We've got things we want to talk about here. Let's just continue this discussion that we had a few moments ago. Our friend on the Republican side is either late or has decided it wasn't worth continuing to discuss their position. We were covering the Medicare issues here in some detail over the last hour, and some of that we want to continue and make sure that people understand what's happened in Medicare. We want to also talk about the rest of America, those that are not yet 65 or will not soon be 65. We'll go through those issues. I want to just start off by laying out what's happening here in Congress. I'm a newbie. I haven't been around all that long, and I'm going, Wow, how's this all work? And as I've watched it, I've listened to what our Republican colleagues talk about, ramming through this legislation. And I'm going, gee, I was the Lieutenant Governor in California until November 5 when I was sworn in here. And as near as I can recall, this debate started 14 months ago. It was the President standing right there in the Well here giving his State of the Union--it wasn't the State of the Union at the time. It was his first speech to the House.…”