Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank her for her leadership, as well as that of our distinguished chairman, Mr. Rogers, to bring us to the floor today where we can vote in a bipartisan way to keep government open without doing harm to women's health in our country. To shut government down is a really bad decision for this Congress to make. The last time we did that, we lost $24 billion. The last time this Congress voted to shut down government, we lost $24 billion to our economy, 120,000 jobs in our workforce. Our Federal workforce, which contains more than 30 percent of veterans in its composition, was furloughed or worse. The American people deserve better. So as we go forward from this continuing resolution, which is a good outcome of the conversations that have gone back and forth--a strong bipartisan vote in the Senate, and I hope a strong bipartisan vote in the House--let us take heed of the words of Pope Francis, who just, not even 1 week ago, spoke to us in this Chamber. Pope Francis asked us to work together for the common good of the people. He urged and said a good leader would have a spirit of openness and pragmatism, again, to get the job done for the American people. {time} 1545 As we go forward, we will have some difficult choices to make.…”