Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. King. And we do have a little bit more time. I'm thankful to talk about this topic because this isn't just a 1-hour topic. As a matter of fact, there's a colleague that we were with earlier today who said that we need to talk about this for a full day because, just from a process point of view, for people who are tuning in tonight on C-SPAN, Mr. Speaker, we think it's very important that we don't just go through this topic glibly, because we know this bill wasn't read in the Senate. We were betrayed by our colleagues in the Senate on this bill. This border security isn't border security. It's a fake border security bill that came through. We're not interested in that. The American people aren't interested in that, and we need to have a real debate. We don't want to see, here in the House of Representatives, that the People's Representatives are beguiled or have a boondoggle put in front of them or have a Trojan horse given to us, because one thing that could happen is we could have a great-sounding bill that we're given, and then we're supposed to vote for it. We could pass that bill. We could talk about it for maybe 10 minutes on the floor. Actually, it would be a little bit longer, not much, but talk about that bill here on the floor, pass this Trojan horse, sounds like a really good bill, pass it.…”