Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, just a few minutes ago, the President took to the airwaves to say that we have workers in the Justice Department that are not able to go to work; we have workers in the Commerce Department that have been laid off; we have workers in the Federal Judiciary and the State Department around the world unable to go to work. He says it is because the Congress shut down the Government. I am going to make the President a real deal here today. We are going to give the President a chance to put these workers back to work. We have heard speakers in the well of this House, for the last several weeks now, saying we need to put these workers back to work. I am going to make you a real deal today. We are going to give you a chance to vote to put these workers back to work, because today we are going to give you a chance to vote to override the President's veto of this bill and put the workers back to work. Make no mistake, the reason the workers in these departments are not working today is not because the Congress did not pass a bill. We sent the President this appropriations bill for these departments several weeks ago. The President chose to lay them off. The President chose to close the Government for these agencies. The President chose to say to the American people, I am going to shut these agencies down because I do not like the bill the Congress gave to me.”