Political Quotes

“I thank my friend, who has a magic minute that I dearly miss. I forgot to articulate, and I should have articulated, I want to congratulate Fred Upton. Fred Upton is my friend. Fred Upton is the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Fred Upton is one of those Members in this House who represents this institution so well because he is committed to working in a bipartisan fashion. We find ourselves sometimes not able to do that. But I want to say thank you to Mr. Upton from Michigan for his leadership and his commitment to making sure this institution works as the American people want it to work. I thank my friend, the majority leader, for yielding. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his words, and I hope all that are watching today see that this is a pattern of what works inside Washington. In Washington, Mr. Speaker, there is a common cycle: you have a problem, you kick the can down the road; you hit a cliff, then you rush to a short-term fix that doesn't actually fix the problem; then the cycle starts all over again. This isn't a good way to govern. With this cycle, problems usually get worse, and a lot of times the short-term fixes get packed with add- ons that increase the size of government and cost people more and more. We have seen this with this doc fix again and again, 17 times over the last decade. Every single year I have served in this body, less than a decade, that has been the solution, to kick the can down the road.…”