Political Quotes

“I come to the mike tonight just in a way of fact-checking all of the inaccuracies that we hear. If Members listen to the White House, if Members listen to my colleagues on the other side, they pretend that this whole shutdown was over illegal immigrants versus American citizens. Our DREAMers, who came here as children through no fault of their own, were legal until the President decided to withdraw their legality and their documentation. He made them here undocumented. The second part of all of this is they are saying: Oh, we are funding our troops. It was General Mattis who said that funding the troops with a continuing resolution was debilitating for our armed services. So there are a lot of things that we hear, but on the House floor in this United States Congress, the one thing we owe to the American public and to our citizens is the truth, whether it is on our side or whether it is not. The truth is they have well over 230 Members. They could pass a budget if they wanted to. If they would work with both sides, then we could continue to do what the Congressional Black Caucus has done since the beginning of time, which is make this country a more perfect Union. ____________________”