Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute. The speakers on my side of the aisle have expressed concern, as indeed I did, about the pay-for here. This bill proposes to take money from the SNAP program to pay for this, and we have expressed some concern that this is something of a shell game for two reasons. One, it's borrowed money, and if we really want to do some positive things for our children, we should look at not adding billions and trillions more to the debt that they're going to have to pay. But we've had speaker after speaker on the other side of the aisle come down and say things like, The President has assured me that we're not going to actually spend this money or that they're going to work tirelessly to make sure that this pay-for is not in fact the pay-for. So I think the debate has confirmed our suspicion that in fact the promised pay-for is really not there. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Utah, a member of the committee, Mr. Bishop.”