Political Quotes

“We come to the floor early this afternoon knowing that later this day we have a meeting with the Speaker. It is our goal and our hope that the Speaker will provide an opportunity for the minority party to have its two votes taken up in this Congress. We prevail on the good nature of the Speaker and know him to be an honest and forthright man and an institutionalist who understands the House. We also know that he is not just Speaker for the Republican Conference, but he is indeed Speaker of the entire House. We face an extraordinary calamity, a catastrophe unlike anyone has experienced in any other country in the world, and it is the ongoing slaughter that occurs. There have been more than 1,000 mass murders since the tragedy at Sandy Hook when they took, as Senator Joe Manchin said, our babies from us. What we are asking for on this side of the aisle are very commonsense solutions; no fly, no buy. If you can't get on an airplane because you are a terrorist but you can buy a gun, doesn't it seem as though there should be regulations that would prevent that and keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, criminals, and the mentally challenged? Also, there are background checks, which most law enforcement entities have talked about on the very bill that Senators Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin introduced in the United States Senate that received the majority of votes and that Representatives Peter King and Mike Thompson introduced in the House of Representatives.…”