Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I can think of many other things that we could be talking about that truly, truly, truly call out and scream out for a national emergency. Homelessness in our communities: Thousands of people in our communities sleep on a street, under a bridge, children sleeping in vehicles every single night. I think about the opioid epidemic, and how many of our families are simply immune to the issues around drug abuse and how addiction overcomes them? I think about last year around Christmastime when 800,000 of our Federal workers were going without a paycheck and went without a paycheck for 35 days. Yet my colleagues on the other side of the aisle could not find 1 minute and 6 seconds to give them a paycheck, to open up the Federal Government, to do their duty. Instead, in the Rules Committee, we took up an emergency order on labeling of cheese curds. They found that to be more important than the lives and the families of 800,000 Federal workers. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).”