Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman very much. Madam Speaker, 800,000 American workers, 800,000 workers in our Federal workforce, have either been sent home and furloughed with no check or told to report to work with no check, with no payment. I have got air traffic controllers living in my district, Madam Speaker, who have had to take money out of their kids' 529 college funds. They have had to take money out of their own retirement funds in order to pay their family bills, and there is a 10 percent penalty for doing that. Who is going to pay them back the 10 percent? Is the President of the United States going to do that? What about my constituents? I have tens of thousands of Federal workers. What about my constituents who are being forced to put their mortgage on a credit card this month? Who is going to pay them back? And what about the dishonor and the humiliation brought on our government by this? The President of the United States didn't do this to hundreds of thousands of workers in Putin's Russia or in Orban's Hungary or in Duterte's Philippines. This is our people that he did this to. {time} 1115 These are our workers, who he sent home with no paycheck. People are texting me. They are emailing me their paystubs today, which say zero dollars gross, zero dollars net, after having worked 40 or 50 hours this week. I have scientists in my district who are working on preventing outbreaks of E.…”