Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I remind my friend, Mr. Pfluger, that this bill is about separating loans. It is not about the energy policy, although I will address some of his remarks in a second. This is about the some 14,000 people that have taken advantage, clearly of consolidating loans, but since that point, there has been some disruption in their marriage. So we now have people, as I mentioned earlier, that have been divorced for 17 years, still burdened by a student loan of their ex-spouse and, in that particular instance, an ex-spouse who had been abusive and continues to refuse to pay his share of the loan. So this gives the spouse who was in the abusive relationship, the spouse who can't find the ex-spouse to help take care of this joint loan, the ability to separate, take care of their own loans, and take advantage of other programs that we, in Congress, the administration, Democrats and Republicans, have put into place, like the public loan forgiveness. If you are working for the government, in some instances, you can get credit for that service. Many of these people have been unable to take advantage of that. So that is what this bill is about. That is what this rule is about. Now, as to my friend, I would say to him, you know, gas prices--I don't know about Texas, maybe Texas has higher gas prices than Colorado.…”