Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his leadership on this and many other issues, and I thank him for putting this time together. Whenever anyone says it is a do-nothing Congress, they are only half right. It is actually a do-nothing Senate. In this Congress, the House has passed and sent over to the Senate 311 total bills, and we have talked about the 220 jobs-related bill. There are 311 total bills. In stark contrast, the Senate has sent to the House only 67 bills. The Senate produces just about one-third of what the House does--one- third of the work, Mr. Speaker. I am not saying that passing bills in and of itself is an unalloyed good. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, is a primary example of that, but it is one way to measure how hard you are working. From the House Natural Resources Committee I sit on, we have passed six bills opening up American energy that would create over 1 million new jobs, lower gasoline and electricity prices, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and help lower our national debt by generating over $1 billion in new revenue. These bills are now stalled in the Senate. The U.S. Senate has turned into a productivity graveyard. President Obama has signed only 24 Senate bills into law during this Congress. In contrast, 91 bills from the House have been signed by the President into law. These are total bills of all different subjects.…”