Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to say I am embarrassed by the past month. =========================== NOTE =========================== January 30, 2019, on page H1288, the following appeared: (Mr. HARDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. HARDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to say I am embarrassed by the past month. The online version has been corrected to read: (Mr. HARDER of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. HARDER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise to say I am embarrassed by the pastmonth. ========================= END NOTE ========================= This is my first week in Congress without our government being shut down. I came to Washington to help my community. It is a shame that the benchmark for progress so far has been whether or not the government has even been open. It is hard to lower the bar from there. We can't let this happen again. Alongside some of my freshman colleagues, I have cosponsored legislation that says, even if the government shuts down, Congress will still have the funding to pay our Federal workers. And it goes further than that. If Congress fails to make a deal, we should withhold pay from Members of Congress, we should stop using taxpayer dollars for travel, and we should end bonuses for the executive branch.…”