Political Quotes

“With that warm tribute, Madam Speaker, clearly, we work well together. We have a comity with each other. You have to keep your sanity around here by keeping things lighthearted in the middle of a lot of heated battles sometimes. But in the meantime, when you think about the friendships--and I will share my story about John shortly. There is a townhouse that John Shimkus owns here in Washington, D.C., and it is a four-bedroom townhouse. There are four Members of Congress who live in that townhouse. We each have our own bedrooms and bathrooms, but we come together. It has been, I think, a special part of all of our times up here in Congress to get to know each other so well. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady), the Member of Congress who has lived in the townhouse with John the longest, probably going back to when he purchased it, our dear friend, colleague, and roommate.”