Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I shall use. This is a flawed bill that we are now considering. We are forced to consider it because of the Republican filibuster of action on the jobs and tax bill now pending in the other body. This bill does not adequately address the need for a longer-term solution to avoid the disastrous cut in Medicare physician reimbursement that is currently impacting doctors and, most importantly, seniors and military servicemembers. Republicans in the other body have been stonewalling the basic bill, the jobs bill, week after week after week. Doing so, they have placed a hammerlock on the lives of millions of Americans. A much better course would be for Republicans in the other body to begin to side with the American people instead of stonewalling against them, and not with their party leaders nor the Tea Party, and allow a straight up-or-down vote on the comprehensive jobs bill pending in the other body. Instead, they are willing to put politics before people, and they are leaving millions of unemployed workers thrown out of work by this recession through no fault of their own without their unemployment insurance benefits. Instead, they seem willing to let loopholes that permit jobs to be shipped overseas continue to remain open. Republicans, in a word, are saying to the American people that they care more about their political futures than they do the daily lives of millions and millions of Americans. We will not let that stand.…”