Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership as chair of the Rules Committee for bringing this important legislation to the floor today. I also acknowledge the bipartisan cooperation of the Republicans in this House and pay tribute to Mr. Cole, who is highly respected on both sides of the aisle. I am sorry that he doesn't see a pattern in this, as the Republicans have had these kinds of committees time and again. I never heard him question them then, but I do hear him questioning them today. But I am very pleased that the two of them will be working together with the distinguished majority leader, Mr. Hoyer, and the distinguished Republican leader, Mr. McCarthy, as well as with the leadership of Chairwoman Lofgren and Ranking Member Davis in the days ahead to consider the proposal that we have for how we can act as a Congress when everybody cannot be present. I see in the paper that I pulled it. No, I didn't pull it. I said all along I wanted this to be bipartisan. As Speaker of the whole House, as we changed how we participate, I wanted it to be bipartisan. When we saw that that opportunity existed, in my conversation with the distinguished Republican leader, Mr. McCarthy, I then said we have to give this a chance. I do think that there are many options that may be available.…”