Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, there is an old adage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Well, guess what, folks; this is kind of broke. We need to look for different ways of fixing it. This bill today that my colleague from Missouri (Mr. Cleaver) and my colleague from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy) have been working on is that attempt to look for those answers. We do truly have common goals. They are common goals of opportunity, reward, and upward mobility for all Americans and to give them that opportunity. Whether you are watching on C-SPAN or maybe in the gallery right now, what you are seeing on the floor may not compute with what you are seeing in the news all the time. We actually are agreeing on things. We actually are trying to move ahead and trying to better our citizens and our constituents in a way that will ultimately benefit not just them and their families individually, but their communities, our collective State, and, by extension, our country. That is what we are trying to do here today. I just, again, want to commend the gentlemen from Wisconsin and Missouri for their work on this and for the leadership of the ranking member and Chairman Hensarling, as well, on this. As we move forward to try to provide that opportunity to provide that upward mobility, to give citizens the real choice of what to do with their lives and how to live their lives, I can think of no better way than starting off with this pilot program.…”