Political Quotes

“I thank Ms. Waters for the time, although I must say that I am a little bit confused. I am not going to frame this as a parliamentary inquiry, but I am very confused. We have just gotten back from a 2-month paid vacation in which Federal employees didn't get paid, in which we started a war without congressional approval, in which electricity prices went up for 70 million Americans, and in which inflation is rocking along at 3 rac{1}{2} percent. I thought we were going to be in this Chamber talking about affordability. By the way, my friends on the Republican side just got shellacked in an election, from sea to shining sea, where the word is affordability. They got shellacked on affordability. What did we do this week? Congressman Norman, a guy who put a .38 Smith & Wesson on the table when he met with Moms Demand Action on Gun Safety and who called for martial law to stop the peaceful transfer of power to stop Joe Biden from becoming President, decided that Stacey Plaskett should no longer be on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. We spent half a day on that. Congresswoman Mace decided that Cory Mills should no longer be on committees. Apparently, we may do another one. I prepared a speech on affordability with lots of good ideas on how to make stuff cheaper. It says it right there: Lots of good ideas on how to make stuff cheaper.”