Political Quotes

“I agree with my friend, the gentleman from Kentucky. This is, indeed, an opportunity for a real deal. Today we can vote to override the President. We can solve many of the problems we heard the President complain about just a little while ago on television. He said the Congress is keeping many Federal employees out of work. Well, the fact is that 620,000 Federal employees have not returned to work, because the three appropriations bills that provide the funding for those 620,000 employees were vetoed by the President of the United States, the same gentleman who was on television just a little while ago complaining about the lack of appropriations bills. The Congress did its job in those three bills. We sent the President the Commerce, Justice, State, and judiciary bill, on which we are considering the veto here today; the Interior bill; and the VA-HUD bill. The President chose to veto them and put those 620,000 Federal employees on the street without paychecks for the Christmas holidays. In fact, he vetoed the bills just about a week before Christmas. The American people can thank the President for the closure of the national parks and museums.”