Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Ms. Kaptur. We should have pointed out in the introduction that you are the ranking member of one of the Appropriation Committees--transportation, the energy programs, all of the research that goes on, and a lot of the projects of, I believe, NASA, also. I know you worked long and hard on that, and I sense a sadness, from your remarks, that all of the good things that are done by those Departments are simply in abeyance now; and given the level of funding that is in the CR with the sequestration, much will not be done. Let me now turn to my colleague from California (Mr. Honda), who has been serving for a while here representing the Silicon Valley and much of what we were just talking about, the research and the development of the economy. I know you've had a great deal to do with that over the years, really helping to create one of the engines of economic growth in the United States. Mr. Honda.”