Political Quotes

“September should be a particularly important month for this House. It will be a month of contrasts. It will be a month in which the American people will be able to see that the Republican message to the American people is, ``You are on your own,'' while Democrats say, ``We are on your side.'' All right. Well, what does that mean? The Republicans' announced agenda for this month ought to be no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the gridlock in Congress. Instead of focusing on the issues that matter--creating jobs, raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system--they are planning to reintroduce partisan messaging bills the House has already passed. So we are repeating what we have already done, as little as that may be. {time} 1015 Mr. Speaker, it appears as if the Republican House majority in the 113th Congress will go out much as it came in: fixated on a single goal. The Republican chairman of the Rules Committee, Pete Sessions, summed up that goal late last year when he said--and I quote Congressman Sessions, Republican chairman of the Rules Committee: ``Everything we do in this body should be about messaging to win back the Senate.'' Not about creating jobs, not about making America more secure, not about energy, not about the minimum wage, not about immigration reform, not about making sure that women get equal pay for equal work, not about any of those things.…”