Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me the time, and I appreciate the leadership of the gentlewoman from California. Mr. Speaker, I stuck around tonight because we are doing two of my favorite things in this institution. We are taking ideas that came from constituents with problems who trusted us enough to bring us those problems. We are putting those things into action, and we are doing it not with a lot of shouting and not with a lot of pomp and circumstance. We are doing it just the way the process was supposed to work by which the gentlewoman from California crafts an idea, and she goes out and she solicits cosponsors, and the team on the Judiciary Committee works it through the process. Then it comes down here to the House floor, Mr. Speaker, where it is going to make real differences for real people. Imagine you have done everything the right way--you have stood in line; you have played by the rules. You have done everything the way citizen and American law has asked you to do it. Finally, your green card is ready to be delivered, and you are waiting at the post office for it to come--right there by the mailbox, waiting for it to come. You check online. Online, it says it was delivered yesterday, but you don't have it. You call your Congressman for help, and your Congressman says, ``There is nothing we can do,'' and there hasn't been until this Speier legislation today.…”