Political Quotes

“Members have been coming forth all afternoon, talking about the fact that our constituents are feeling great anxiety. They feel and they look to Congress, and they think there are some issues here that we can deal with in our communities. We are going to be having some very serious and deep conversations about some of the concerns that we have, but there are a few issues that this House--the people's House--needs to deal with while our constituents are dealing in their own houses with some of the concerns that are addressed by education, by poverty, by guns. There are too many guns in their communities. We have been hearing repeatedly that we can close the gun show loophole here in Congress, in the people's House, and we should. We can close the fact that there are people who can fly today who are on no-fly lists. We can change that in the people's House. We have to get on this, and that is why it is discouraging when there is time--when there are hours and minutes and days--that we are not working on these issues. People look to us. They want us to solve those problems that local government cannot solve alone. ____________________”