Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Florida for pulling this Special Order together and for his generous introduction, and especially for Mr. Yoho's leadership on the restoration of article I authority and addressing the executive overreach that has become part and parcel of the Obama administration. It didn't begin there, but it needs to end with the next President of the United States and be slowed down in the last months of the Obama administration. Mr. Speaker, I was just exercising a thought here as I was reviewing some of the executive overreach that we have seen from this President, and it occurred to me to take a look at the Declaration of Independence and review some of what I will call the lamentations of our Founding Fathers. It is to this effect, Mr. Speaker. When we get to the laments, these are the things, the wrongs that have been committed by the King of England. It says in the Declaration: ``The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations''--that sounds like the history of our current President of the United States-- ``all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.'' This is from our Declaration, Mr. Speaker. I will just quickly hit some of these. ``He has refused his Assent to Laws . . .'' ``He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws . . .'' ``He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation . . .…”