Political Quotes

“I am so grateful for your expertise and wisdom and all the years you worked with troubled and incarcerated youth. This gentleman knows that of which he speaks. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield next to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Thank you, again, to my colleague from Louisiana (Mr. Johnson), for leading this time for us to further inform the American people on these key matters. Really, this is what House Republicans have demonstrated so far in this majority here in the last 3 months or so. The priorities of the American people are our priorities for their well-being, their prosperity, and we are achieving that in the legislation we are pushing through. Unfortunately, that priority is not shared by our President, and a lot of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are focused on a lot of other things that are very destructive to our economy, destructive to the well-being of what has really made this country strong economically and morally. Our economic base pivots mainly on energy, continued development of it, developing newer, better technologies which in this country, when we have the entrepreneurship, the freedom and means to continue to innovate instead of getting railroaded into things that don't work. A lot of that is this massive bent toward electrifying all of our energy-consuming devices, whether they be automobiles or appliances, things that we use for manufacturing, industry, what have you.…”