Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I adopt all of what the leader said, notwithstanding the rebuttal from the chairman of our committee. Mr. Speaker, this bill is about giving Trump more unfettered power. That is what this bill is about. This country has been in crisis and chaos over the last 45-plus days, and this bill will continue that process. The Congress, if it passes this bill, will have failed. We should have passed all of our bills by September 30 of last year. We didn't. We then passed, as some of the Republicans have said, some appropriation bills. All of them were partisan bills. This is a partisan bill. In a Congress that is that close, I would think that we would come together and work together. One of our Members said that if Trump says pat our heads and jump up and down, that is what we will do. Welcome to the pat our heads and jump up and down CR. A CR is failure. The majority puts forth its partisan CR that helps this administration dismantle vital services for the American people, outlined by our leader, rejecting any guardrails on these illegal and unconstitutional actions by Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump. It is that chain saw they want to take to Federal employees and the Federal Government. This bill requires the District of Columbia, for instance, to take a $1.1 billion cut, not out of Federal funds but out of their own funds that they tax their people. It defunds the police. Mr. Speaker, I wish I had more time to say how bad this bill is.…”