Political Quotes

“The gentleman talked about the employees on our committees taking a pay cut. That's true that they took a pay cut, and every single one of my employees who took a 5 percent pay cut--and sometimes a little bit more--said one thing to me: We don't mind sacrificing. We will. This was from every single one of them. But they said: Others have sacrificed, too. With that, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo). Mr. LoBIONDO. Mr. Cummings, thank you very much. We all talk about our heroes in this country, and there are some real ones. There are 103 names at the CIA--we don't talk much about CIA officers, FBI officers, State Department officers--who gave their lives. Benghazi, still fresh in our minds, brought the country to its knees in horror, in agony, in mourning. There are State Department officers who lost their lives, and we have the audacity to tell them that we're going to deny them--I don't care if it's $1. At Camp Chapman, Afghanistan, six CIA officers and the chief of station were brutally murdered, and six were seriously injured. I have the honor of being on the House Intelligence Committee. I've been to Camp Chapman. I've been to these forward operating bases. I've been to Africa. I've talked to these CIA officers who are putting their lives on the line every single minute of every day. They don't know when an attack is coming on them, and they don't know from which direction.…”