Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for his information with respect to what we're going to consider next week, and also I was going to ask him, but he has already indicated, that he does not expect the scheduled week of meeting in October to occur. I thank him for that information. That would indicate essentially then, therefore, that we have approximately a little over a day and a half or a day and three- quarters remaining before the election. I want to ask the gentleman, first of all, there's been a lot of talk about the work that has not been done: We have not done the jobs bill that I've been urging us to consider. We have not addressed the middle class tax cut in a way that we'll deal with that and on which I think both sides agree. We have disagreement on tax cuts for those who are not in the middle class. The farm bill, I want to discuss that in a second. The farm bill. The Violence Against Women Act and the middle class tax cut have both passed the United States Senate. Postal reform, there is also an agreement on that in the United States Senate. Obviously sequestration. And I want to talk a little bit about the fiscal cliff, Mr. Leader. But in the farm bill, as you know we have a discharge petition that is pending, which is somewhat unusual in that our party has initiated a discharge petition to ask you to bring to the floor a bill that your committee reported out of committee. That's somewhat unusual in these discharge petitions.…”