Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Madam Speaker, we are debating a spending bill under a budget that doesn't exist. Six months into Joe Biden's Presidency and a Democrat- controlled Congress, we have still not passed a budget for fiscal year 2022. In fact, Democrats have been in the majority for over 1,000 days and they have yet to put a real budget on the floor of the House of Representatives. In this bill before us today, the Democrats want to give Washington bureaucrats an average increase of 21 percent. Their plan will fuel a massive growth in red tape that will harm small businesses. It will hurt working Americans and families, and it gives Washington more control over their lives and livelihoods. But notice what they have left out. What they have left out is, where is the money to protect our homeland? Where is the money for our men and women in uniform? Perhaps our colleagues have not brought these bills to the floor because they are ashamed to face the American people and explain why they want to flatline spending for our men and women in uniform. Or how, during the largest and worst immigration crisis of the southern border in years, they refuse to put in one additional dollar to secure our border. I suppose this shouldn't surprise us. Democrats have been very, very clear about their objectives.…”