Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), my colleague on the Rules Committee, for yielding. Madam Speaker, you heard my colleague's passion from this microphone just seconds ago. Lest anyone thinks this is about money, this rule today combines two bills: one, CBO estimates to cost $8 billion, not a penny for border security; another, the CBO estimates to cost $26 billion, not a penny for border security. Lest anyone thinks this conversation today is about helping those young people here under DACA protections, remember, the Republican majority brought two bills to the floor last year that would do exactly that, got not one Democratic vote on either one of them. If anyone thinks this bill is about protecting folks who are trying to strive for the American Dream, Madam Speaker, I would encourage you to read from page 3 of the bill. It says: This bill applies to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable from the United States, and those aliens only. I tell you that, Madam Speaker, because I represent a constituency that is 25 percent first-generation Americans. I represent a constituency that has played by the rules, done everything right, come to this country legally. Their children are unprotected today, and this bill does not one thing to protect those children. In order to qualify for the protections in this bill, Madam Speaker, people had to have come to America the wrong way.…”