Political Quotes

“Last year the Republicans refused to extend unemployment benefits unless the Bush tax cuts were extended for millionaires and billionaires. Well, here they go again, Mr. Speaker. This year, the Republicans are trying to prevent continuation of jobless benefits and the payroll tax cut unless their wish list of goodies for America's biggest polluters is granted in full. During this Christmas season, instead of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, the Republicans are bearing gifts of arsenic and mercury and oil on behalf of their planet-polluting patrons, Big Oil and Big Coal. The GOP used to stand for ``Grand Old Party.'' Now it stands for ``Gang of Polluters.'' Now it stands for the ``Gas and Oil Party.'' This Republican bill: One, blocks and indefinitely delays standards that would reduce hazardous air pollution like lead and cancer-causing substances that are released from industrial boilers and sent to the lungs of the children of America; Two, rushes approval for the Keystone pipeline that will bring the dirtiest oil on the planet through the United States so it can be reexported to other countries while hurting our health and our environment here; and Three, cuts much needed Medicare payments to hospitals to care for the sickest in our country. The Republicans are presenting a false choice to the American people. We should not have to choose between toxic chemicals and tax relief for American workers. We should not have to choose between pollution and prosperity.…”