Political Quotes

Mr. Speaker, I don't know where to begin. I have 5 minutes. I could use 500. The American people are watching. They recognize that our Nation suffers under the burden of a threatened government shutdown and the very real threat of millions…

Mr. Chair, in 1988, I joined the Army. I went through boot camp and AIT in 1989 as Private Higgins, an enlisted man. Going through the military police academy in 1989 was quite grueling, and we lost a lot of people. We excluded many young…

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 262, noes 143, not voting 25, as follows: [Roll No…

It's become very clear that the expense of large traditional, sort-of, 20th-Century envisioned massive vessels of war that are incredibly expensive to build and remarkably easy to sink apparently with small, inexpensive, expendable…