Political Quotes

“Well, we finally have a prioritization here. This amendment actually takes money from one program that it thinks is not as important and puts it in another program it thinks is underfunded. But that is interesting because, look, the Inspector Generals are very important. God knows the Inspector General over at Justice is doing a very important job right now. He has got to look into what the heck went on over in the senior levels of the Department of Justice that resulted in that Steele dossier, paid for by a campaign, actually ending up causing an investigation during a political campaign. Oh, those Inspector Generals are important. I will agree with on you that. But this bill already increases the funding of the Inspector General by 4 percent, higher than inflation. The bill already has an increase. Most people would think that is enough. Most Americans, if they got a 4 percent increase in their paycheck, they would go, wow, this is great. This is more than inflation. We want to do a little more. But that is not the problem with this. It is where the money comes from. You see, because the money comes from already-reduced funding at the Office of Labor Management Standards. So what is the Office of Labor Management because, you know, Madam Chair, we have--at 3:45 Eastern Time we probably don't have millions of people watching, but we have Americans watching who might be asking, what is this Office of Labor Management?…”