Political Quotes

“Aloha, Mr. Speaker. On February 27, the Department of Homeland Security will run out of money--17 more days. If this is not resolved, at best case, approximately 200,000 workers will stay on the job without pay or be furloughed or, at worst, not work. Mr. Speaker, I was elected to Congress and came here promising my constituents no more government shutdowns, no more Federal furloughs, and no more sequestration; yet here we are, on the verge of letting funding for Homeland Security run out and partially shutting down government. This impasse needs to end, and it needs to end now. I say the bottom line--to paraphrase DHS Secretary Johnson's point-- is security for our Nation is not free. Our homeland security cannot be hijacked by political games. We must get past this political stalemate and work out a clean bill for funding Homeland Security. If we don't, significant portions of the Department of Homeland Security could be crippled, and hundreds of thousands of critical Federal personnel--our constituents--could be affected.…”