Political Quotes

“The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Cicilline) has been such a leader on this issue. He was a leader in the sit-in that happened a few weeks ago on the floor of the House, I can attest personally. I bore witness to his staying here all night, for 25 hours straight. He organized us on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday evening, the 1-month anniversary--bad, sad observance of the 1 month since Orlando, where a hate crime was committed against young people gathered for a night of enjoyment, instead to have the end of their life occur. And why? Because of a hate crime. And why? Because we don't have commonsense gun laws in our country. He also organized us all day in scores of 1-minutes on behalf of House Democrats. But I want to also thank him for putting this Special Order together in preparation for the event that we will have on the steps of the Capitol later this evening. I associate myself with the remarks of our distinguished whip, Mr. Hoyer, when we say to the Republicans, why have you left here? Congresswoman Beatty has the same message. What more important thing do our Republican colleagues have to do than to be in session, to do their job, for us all to do our job for the American people? We should be here to do our job on Zika, which the President over 4 months ago requested funding to fight Zika, and now it is spreading in our country. We should be here for funding for opioids. We passed a wonderful bill--good policy, but no funding; therefore, not effective.…”