Political Quotes

“Debating this budget resolution is a partisan and pointless exercise, and I will point out to the chairman that it is October, after the fiscal year has expired and after we have already passed every single appropriations bill out of the House of Representatives, and, I might add, a continuing budget resolution. {time} 1600 Just as when we considered it in committee this summer, this resolution stands as a demonstration of the majority's willful and disgraceful neglect of the needs of the American people. With so many critical legislative issues for us to discuss, the majority has decided it is a better use of our time to discuss tax breaks for millionaires and wealthy corporations; taking healthcare away from 20 million Americans; blowing up our deficit with an ineffective, immoral border wall; and gutting crucial investments in jobs, education, and medical research. Instead, this House should be enacting legislation to expand background checks and ban assault weapons to combat senseless firearm violence after this Nation witnessed, once again, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. This House should be passing the Dream Act to protect DREAMers who call this Nation home and protect them from this administration's heartless deportations.…”