Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, I voted against that; and I vote against giving them $14.5 billion because I do not believe there is a worse example of corporate welfare, only to be followed by the prescription drug bill and the corporate tax bill that was a $5 billion problem. You all handed out $145 billion to corporate interests. Only in Washington do you try to resolve a $5 billion problem that cost you $145 billion, and it still did not resolve the original $5 billion problem. I bring this all up for one simple point: For the last 5 years, this is supposed to be the people's House, and when that gavel comes down, it is supposed to open the people's House, not the auction house. And from the prescription drug legislation to the energy legislation to the corporate tax bill, you have sold off America's interests. Billions of dollars have been spent lobbying the people's House, and it shows when you go from product to product, from line to line. That is what has happened here. Now all of a sudden everybody is worried about how we are going to deal with the energy problem. When you had an energy bill, you hailed it as a great victory for the American people. Since that time energy has gone up more than a buck a gallon at the pump. But that is also an example of what has happened with the corporate tax bill and the pharmaceutical bill. People have used their influence. I do not bemoan what the energy companies have done.…”