Political Quotes

“before I pass this microphone over to my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth), I cannot help but express some of the frustration with sitting here and listening to this. I am really grateful that the American people do not have the same sentiment that I have heard tonight on the floor of Congress. When I go to the coffee shop and to the break room in my district, I do not hear anything like this rhetoric that I have heard here tonight. When I hear that we have cut food stamps, I was involved in that. We did not cut food stamps. What we did was we changed the regulations so you have to be on some other kind of benefit so there was less fraud. There is $1 billion of fraud going into the wrong people in food stamps just in the last year that I have a report. We only touched about 20 percent of the fraud, Mr. Speaker. Fuel prices. Help us open up drilling on the outer continental shelf. Help us drill in ANWR. Let us develop the energy that we have in this country, and we will not be looking at $3 dollar fuel. We know who is to blame. It is the environmental extremists. And if Exxon Mobil made $10 billion in the last quarter, let us take a look and see where they invest it. If they invest it in that drilling, the American people will reap the benefits. There are a whole series of things here tonight, Mr. Speaker, and that frustrates me greatly. But I wanted to talk a little bit about the immigration issue.…”