Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Ohio for his remarks. I am so proud he is going to be going to the United States Senate because, in the United States Senate, Mr. Scott from Florida has proposed ending Social Security in 5 years. Ohio needs to make sure that it is sending someone to the United States Senate who is not going to end Social Security in 5 years but is going to expand Social Security now, when we need it, when we are in the worst pandemic in the history of the country, when we are suffering through inflation. The time to act is now. As Martin Luther King would say, it is the fierce urgency of now. It has been 51 years since Congress has done anything. That is something that Ted Lieu of California understands and has been working tirelessly, as an original cosponsor of this bill, to reach out not only to the citizens of California but all across this country to make sure that they are going to have the benefits that can sustain them. Our goal is to expand benefits, not cut them. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Lieu).”