Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I really appreciate the opportunity to come down and talk. Our colleague from Alabama was talking about Martin Luther King, who also talked about the urgency of now. If there is a time for urgency, it is now to end the shutdown and pay the workers. He also talked about and warned about that, if you wait too long, it can be too late. So this is the time to spare what is a growing disaster for all Americans from happening. Wilbur Ross, our Commerce Secretary, said that he doesn't quite understand why these furloughed and unpaid workers might have to go to a food bank. He doesn't understand. That is exemplary of the level at which this administration is completely tone-deaf and out of touch, that they don't understand how people--the beginning salary for a TSA worker at the airport is $28,000, and sometimes it goes up to maybe $43,000. Tomorrow will be the second paycheck that they don't get. So a number of us in Chicago had a roundtable that included eight Members of the House of Representatives, Democrats, and Senator Durbin. Madam Speaker right now in the chair was at that roundtable. We heard from 18 different workers from different agencies talking. Wilbur Ross ought to talk to Florence, who is helping people get food stamps and found herself having to apply for food stamps, for the SNAP program. She waited 3 hours at a food bank. Why?…”