Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on bigger paychecks for America's working families and in so many areas. Thank you, Mr. Levin, for your leadership. I congratulate Chairman Brady for assuming his new position. We all wish him success and look forward to working with him. The bill before us today calls for very serious discussion. We in this body have a very big responsibility to make decisions as architects of our children's future, where we are making decisions that strengthen the middle class and that take us to our responsibility to be custodians of our democracy. The middle class is the backbone of our democracy, and this legislation undermines the success of the middle class. In terms of children, their education, the financial security of their families, the pension security of their grandparents, the health of the environment in which they live, all of that is seriously affected by this legislation. Let's put it in perspective, because this is part of a grand scheme that started after President Clinton left office. In his term of office, because of the Budget Act of 1993 which passed with Democratic support, it unleashed a remarkable era of job creation, and it took us on a path to deficit reduction. In fact, five of his last budgets were even or in surplus, and that was taking us to a path of reducing not only the deficit--of course it would be eliminated--but the national debt.…”