Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I just want to associate myself with the words of the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia. So often what we see is our Federal employees often being criticized when it came to trying to find money when we have budgetary problems. It seems that there is an effort to constantly go in to the Federal employees and make them pay. And they do all kinds of jobs. I agree with the gentlewoman. This bill does not solve the problem with the shutdown. {time} 1300 At least I hope that we are sending a message to them that we care about them and that we understand and we feel their pain. I agree with the gentlewoman. In some kind of way, we ought to be able to move from where we are to getting folks back to work, an independent group looking at, perhaps, the issues that confront the compromisers--that is, looking at this wall--and deal with that at some other time. But we need to get people back to work. People are in pain. They are feeling it. Not only are the employees feeling it, but all the people who are coming into the various parks or whatever, who simply want to have a nice day, who simply want to have some reasonable entertainment that does not cost them a lot by going for a walk in the park; for getting the services that are needed; for making sure that our airplanes do not have folks on them carrying guns.…”