Political Quotes

“I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker and Members, I am very proud and very pleased about this bipartisan effort to fix a serious problem in this country. As a matter of fact, we should all be pleased because it is said by the media and others that we cannot work together. This is a time when we can demonstrate that we really do care about the citizens of this country and we recognize the problems that were created by the Biggert-Waters bill. I said earlier that my name was on that Biggert-Waters legislation, and I certainly worked in a bipartisan effort to try and do the right thing, and, of course, some day we would like to move all of these subsidies to actuarial rates. We have unintended consequences in Biggert-Waters, and we have set out to fix them. So I want you to know that Mr. Grimm, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Cassidy, and Mrs. Capito all have worked very hard to make sure that we addressed the concerns of our constituencies.…”