Political Quotes

“I just want to say, this business about illegals getting money, let me just give you an example. You have a husband and wife and three children living in an apartment. The husband does not have authorization to be here. What the bill provided for, that the gentleman talks about, is making sure we feed those children even though somebody who is illegal is living in the household. What they want to have done is nobody in that household got help. It is just a difference of perspective. And I get it. But let me tell you something. What you can't get away from is, Mr. Speaker, they have not passed a bill through the United States Senate. Why? Because it would require compromise. Because you don't have the votes, Mr. Speaker, in the Republican Party to pass a bill without compromise. So they have sent us no bill. Now, Mr. McConnell can say all he wants: Well, we need 60 votes, and they won't give us 60 votes. He is right. And he won't compromise. Your side, on a regular basis when you were in charge, couldn't pass a lot of pieces of legislation that had to be passed, and what did John Boehner do? Walked over here and said: Madam Leader, Mr. Whip, can you help us? And we did. President Bush asked for TARP. He couldn't get the votes on your side. Where did he come? To our side. We passed it, which saved the country from a depression. So when you are talking about all this stuff, we sent two bills. You didn't like them, fine. Pass something through the Senate.…”