Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman, and I thank Congresswoman McCarthy, Chairwoman DeLauro, Congressman Jim McGovern, all for their leadership in bringing this important legislation to the floor today. I especially want to acknowledge the exceptional leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama for recognizing a tremendous need in our country for proper nutrition for our children, children who have issues of having the proper nutrition, having issues about being susceptible to diabetes. So many members of our caucus in this Congress have participated in this legislation, in this House, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, as have other Members; Leader Hoyer. We all come together with a shared value, and we come together proudly to support a bill that passed unanimously, with bipartisan support, passed unanimously in the United States Senate. I congratulate the Senate for the action that they took to give us an opportunity to be here today. When I became Speaker, my first action was to gavel the House to order on behalf of all of America's children. I feel very proud that toward the end of this Congress, I have an opportunity to come to speak for those children as well. I come as a mother and as a grandmother. I come as one whose children and grandchildren every day pray for the one in five children in America who lives in poverty. Many of those children go to sleep hungry at night. How could that be in this, the greatest country in the world.…”