Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of Congressman Ciscomani's bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. This is a bill that should have passed weeks and weeks ago. In fact, today will mark the third time that this House has voted to fully fund the Department. You can see who is voting 'yes' to fund TSA agents, to fund the people at the Department of Homeland Security who work every day to keep us safe here in America. All the Republicans, almost every Republican, voted 'yes.' On March 5, almost every Democrat voted 'no,' voted to shut the Department down. The Democrats shut this down. Then, we brought another vote, and you can see January 22 was the first vote, almost a party-line vote, Republicans voting 'yes' to fund the Department and Democrats voting 'no.' March 5, same thing, Republicans voting 'yes' to fund the Department and Democrats overwhelmingly voting 'no' to shut it down. Now, today is a day where they can seek redemption and stand up for those workers, the TSA agents, who are showing up for work and not getting paid. Do you know that if you are a TSA agent in America this fiscal year, you have gone 49 percent of this year without a paycheck?”