Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, I bring up a bill which is a simple reauthorization bill, and I am very pleased to be here actually on behalf of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Barletta), and we wish him well. He has had some medical issues. He chairs the Subcommittee on Transportation. He actually has a cosponsorship with the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Carson), who you will be hearing from in a minute, but this is a bill to reauthorize the capital repair and maintenance programs at the Kennedy Center. In 2012, I helped introduce and Congress passed the last reauthorization for the Kennedy Center, and I want to thank again the current leader of the Transportation Committee, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), for his leadership on this issue and for also moving this legislation forward, and as I said, Mr. Barletta and Mr. Carson from Indiana have also taken the lead on this measure. The building, of course, is a national monument. It is our national cultural center. In fact, it is owned and maintained by the Federal Government, and it is a memorial to the late John F. Kennedy. Now, I want to cite in the Record, to let folks know this because most people don't know this, that the idea that came forth for the Kennedy Center was not so much by President Kennedy, but it was the foresight and vision of President Eisenhower.…”