Political Quotes

“I know what it means when a farm worker spends the day in the field breathing air that exceeds Federal safety limits and then goes home to a house where they cannot afford the utility bill because their appliances are less efficient, their gas costs more, and their child suffers from asthma. This resolution does not reopen a single closed rural hospital. It does not put food on a single rural kitchen table. It does not clean the air a child breathes in rural America. It does not restore the Medicaid coverage it took from millions of Americans. It does not undo the harm of nearly $1 trillion in cuts to programs that rural families, who are the very people this resolution so-called claims to champion, depend on to survive. What this resolution does is ask this Chamber to applaud the way things are going to hurt rural America, to put a bow on it, and to call it support. Mr. Speaker, this is not support. This is a cover-up. For the families I represent who are already carrying more than their fair share of pollution, poverty, and neglect, this resolution is an insult dressed up as a tribute. If my colleagues truly support rural communities, they will repeal those cuts. If they truly support clean air, they will stop celebrating legislation that weakens the standards that protect it. If they truly support working families, they will stop handing corporations exemptions while families pay the price. Mr. Speaker, vote ``no'' on this do-nothing messaging resolution, H.…”