Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Tracie Pough: This Is Your Life, the Congressional Version. In this House of Representatives, every knight needs a good squire, and Tracie has been a super squire. Team WS is one of the most prolific offices in this Chamber, and Debbie's legacy is her legacy. We all know it. Disaster relief, protecting reproductive rights, advocating for immigrant rights, a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, navigating the COVID crisis--but for me, the biggest legacy is all the funding brought back for the Everglades. None of this was a guarantee. It took 20 years of work. When we started, water was drying up in the Everglades, and the water supply in south Florida was a real challenge. Roads cut right through it. There was a lot of hope with CERP in 2000, a little before they got here, but without all the work, CERP would have been just words on a paper. Instead, they wrote a reg. To the gentlewoman, how long did it take before you became a cardinal, literally working the budget that makes that happen? What was it, 6 years?”