Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I think it is a fundamental difference, again, in the way we choose to look at how we do our business up here. There is a constitutional flow to this. It is called Article I. It is our responsibility as elected Representatives, both from Georgia, from Colorado, from all over this country, it is our responsibility to look at this. I think one of the things that frustrates me, and I know it frustrates many of my constituents back home, is that it seems like every time--as my friend has said--that we are preempting or putting down all this hard work done by the agencies, well, everything that is pointed to so far, it is not our job as Congress to worry about the work product of an agency. Our job is to take care of the American people and make sure that their interests are best concerned. My first interest is the folks of the Ninth District of Georgia. My first interest is not, did the office or agency of an administration of any, Republican or Democrat, did they work real hard on it? I appreciate their work. But the problem we are coming back to here is we are facing a real issue. We are simply saying the SEC needs to go first. We are simply saying let's put these priorities in line, and let's simply say that we look at this. It is not the executive body's determination to make the law, so to speak. It is our body. So if we choose to intervene here, then it is our prerogative to do so, taking care of what we are doing.…”