Political Quotes

“we often hear that the American people have a negative opinion of the job we do here in Congress. In fact, recent polling indicates that 53 percent of the country disapproves of the way Congress handles its job. In a recent CNN poll, 71 percent of the American people said Congress fails to share their priorities and values. Some around here may wonder why that is. Could it be because while American families struggle to pay their education bills, their medical bills, save for their retirement, this Congress has come to be handing out special favors, and that is all they see of this Congress? Could it be because ours has become a government of the special interests, for the special interests? Mr. Speaker, when your gavel comes down, it is to open the people's House, not the auction house. What have the American people seen of late? They have seen that when we had a tax bill problem of $4 billion on the corporate side, we were trying to fix a $4 billion problem, it ended up costing the taxpayers $150 billion in special interest favors. Only in this Congress, only in this country could you stick the taxpayers with a $150 billion bill to bail out corporate interests, when you were trying to fix only a $4 billion problem. And rather than creating jobs as the bill was intended, it is creatively named the Jobs Creation Bill, it was nothing more than a multi-billion dollar giveaway to special interests. Or consider last year's prescription drug bill for Medicare.…”