Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to rise, and I do feel like, to clarify, the bill title of H.R. 1219 is Supporting America's Innovators Act. Our colleagues have seen time and time and time again that the other side has wanted to come to the floor and talk about everything other than what we are dealing with. But I do want to lay out, as one of the senior members of the committee, what has happened in Financial Services when we have dealt with this. Last Congress, this exact bill passed 52-2 in the committee, with the ranking member supporting the bill. There were no dissenting minority views that were offered. And now, with this particular piece of legislation, H.R. 1219, there were no amendments even offered at the Rules Committee. So which is it? My friends across the aisle complain when we don't do regular order. They complain if this had gone on suspension. I am kind of reminded of Groucho Marx in his movie, ``Horse Feathers.'' Whatever that is, I am against it. That seems to be their attitude. But I do look forward to working with my colleagues across the aisle to make sure that they join me in supporting government funding when we are going to be dealing with that here shortly. So on to our bill here, H.R. 1219, unless the opposition, the other side of the aisle, would like to continue to talk about a lot of nongermane things; I will keep bringing up Susan Rice and her illegally unmasking people if they would like to do that.…”