Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia. Mr. Speaker, I'm here today because I'm here on behalf of and with the 150,000 Federal workers who live in the Fourth Congressional District in Maryland. But in our region, in our metropolitan region, we know that there are some 700,000 Federal workers just in the Washington metropolitan region who do so much to protect this country, to keep our neighborhoods, our communities safe, to keep our food safe, to make sure that we know what the weather is; 2.7 to 2.8 million Federal workers all around the country and around the globe. That means that they're not all here in Washington. So I'm always troubled when I hear people who, for the last couple of decades, have just gone on an all- out attack against the great work of Federal workers. And I would say to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, I know a little bit of something about Federal workers. I grew up in a household with two Federal workers. My mother and my father both worked for the Federal Government. In fact, it was working for the Federal Government that really helped them become a part of the middle class in this country. It was the work that they did as Federal workers that saved taxpayers lots of money. It was the work that my father did in uniform in this country protecting and honoring all of us by his service.…”