Political Quotes

“I would like to yield 2 minutes to the majority whip, the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy). Mr. McCARTHY of California. I want to thank freshman Cory Gardner for bringing this legislation to the floor. Mr. Chairman, I want to for one moment imagine. I want to imagine a country, an America that doesn't have 40 months of 8 percent unemployment. I want to imagine an America with 3 percent unemployment. Could you imagine a country that had a trade deficit that was shrunk? Could you imagine a government that, instead of saying it wants to raise taxes, actually cut them? Imagine that, in a housing crisis, you're not sitting with foreclosures, but you actually need more houses to be built and that people are flying into the country because the jobs are there and it is the place to be. I want to imagine, when you go down to even work at McDonald's, you're making $15 an hour. A lot of people in this country turn on the news and think that's farfetched. They think that's impossible to dream or to even imagine. But do you know what? That's taking place in parts of this country. That's exactly what's happening in North Dakota. And why is it happening in North Dakota? It's because they created a State energy policy that is unshackled. There is a team here, Mr. Chairman, that is called the HEAT Team, the House Energy Action Team.…”