Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, it is so important that we do everything in our power to support our Federal employees, and I want to thank Mr. Connolly and Mr. Hoyer. They have given their blood and their sweat and their tears for Federal employees: constantly standing up for them, trying to make sure that they are treated fairly and given their due. Just today, I spoke to two people who were telling me about how Federal employees at NIH basically saved their lives--saved their lives. One told me that the person who saved their life was making about $65,000. This is a doctor. Come on now. And the other said it was about, maybe, $70,000 at best. These are people who could have been doing other things, could have been making a lot of money, but they decided to give their efforts to a greater cause. Their names will probably never appear on the front page--or any page--of The Washington Post. They won't be on ABC News. They will not have the mansion that they could have gotten, but they have done something that will have fed their souls. They have come to the job with passion, compassion, and the desire to make things better, and they are the ones who have determined that they want to put their fingerprints on the future of generations yet unborn. Then there are the others, like the TSA workers--you know the ones-- earning $28,000 a year and coming to work, by the way, during the shutdown when they couldn't even afford the gas to get there. What about them?…”