Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I would like to highlight my alma mater, the University of Florida, which I represent in Florida's District Three. The University of Florida, under the guidance of its president, Dr. Kent Fuchs, has again risen in the U.S. News and World Report rankings to number seven among all public universities in the United States. This is the third year in the row the University of Florida has advanced in that ranking. The University of Florida incorporates all health disciplines, is one of the largest engineering schools in the country, and has a top-rated veterinarian school, which I graduated from in 1983. It is just one of the few schools in the Nation to have won major sports team national championships and titles in football, basketball, and baseball. I guess that is why it is great to be a Florida Gator. Madam Speaker, I would like to talk about another crisis that has not been dealt with on this House floor, and that crisis is the immigration crisis we have. We hear a lot about the climate crisis. Crises are the things that are happening right now that we must respond to. But so many of the things that we face in Congress are issues that may be a crisis for some along the border, or some who are being advanced by people coming into the country illegally, but if Congress were to act, these crises would go away. There is time to deal with climate change, and there is time to deal with the crisis on the border, but we must act.…”