Political Quotes

“Thank you so very much, Mr. Horsford. Thank you for your passion, for your knowledge, for your concern about your constituents, and particularly about those men and women that are from the military. I also have two major Air Force bases in my district with a very large population of veterans, both young and old, from the various wars and conflicts of the past. And they need a shot. Your legislation ought to be the law. It simply should be the law of the land. We should put these people back to work. We showed the picture earlier of the people lined up; 147 of those were veterans. I think about 14 were actually hired that day and given a chance. I often put this up when we have these opportunities to speak on the floor about jobs and putting men and women back to work, because this is kind of a compass that I like to use when I think about legislation, when I think about what we ought to be doing here. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, talking about a New Deal, he said this: A test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. We need to think about that often here on the floor. The issues that we have talked about today--putting people back to working, the minimum wage, and unemployment insurance, and food stamps or the SNAP program-- all speak to this fundamental test of America's moral compass.…”