Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member of the committee, Mrs. Lowey. Mr. Speaker, I want to just remind people that this is a big bill. It is a bill that has got a lot in it. It has got a lot more good in it than it has bad in it. Big bills have both. What is really important is this is the most important vote we take all year, because this is the vote that runs all of government, keeps it all operational, all the things you have heard about. I want to thank the chairman, Mr. Rogers, because he promised our committee at the beginning of the year that he was going to get us back to regular order and get us a bill. I bet that we were going to end up with a CR, which is the worst thing we could do. It is the failure of Congress to carry out its business. I want to compliment Mr. Rogers and Mrs. Lowey for their incredible work in getting a clean, a relatively clean appropriations bill, and how important this is. The work that was done on all the minutiae in there by our staff on the Democratic side--Martha Foley in Ag Approps, and my staff: Rochelle Dornatt, Troy Phillips, Ana Sorrentino, the Republican staff, Tom O'Brien, Andrew Cooper, Pam Miller, Elizabeth King, Betsy Bina, and Chairman Aderholt's staff, Brian Rell and Jennifer Groover--thank you for all the detailed work, night after night, that you have put into this.…”