Political Quotes

“There is a national shortage of more than 7 million units of affordable housing across America and more than 771,000 people experiencing homelessness. This CR does nothing to lower the cost of housing. That is what I was going to talk about for my 2 minutes, but after listening to this debate for so long, I think significant correction has to be made. Programs are not fully funded and protected if you gut the agencies that operate them. Programs are not fully funded and protected if there is no one there to operate them. Under President Trump, spending bills have become a farce. He is not following the previous spending bill law that we passed. Are we saying: Well, this time we really mean it; this time the President really promises he is going to follow the law? Have we gotten to the point where Article I is optional? Our constituents are asking us: However great you say this bill is, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, they are going to blame us because we believed you this time. We believed the President who, when he gets in the room with the truth, a fight breaks out, as we have seen time and again in the last month. So with all due respect, don't tell us what is in this bill, how great it is, and how we need to read it when he doesn't have to follow it and you don't complain when he doesn't follow it and you abdicate your responsibilities in Article I and as appropriators. The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”