Political Quotes

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Mississippi is recognized for 5 minutes.

Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of my birth and my hometown, is known for a lot of things: the birthplace of Elvis Presley; we are the headquarters of the Natchez Trace Parkway. One of the things we are also very proud of is we are the very…

So to wrap it up, is it accurate to say that in the 1980s, they got the geology and science right; they just did not contemplate the politics?

I do want to thank Mr. Ryan for his leadership on this budget. Mr. Chairman, we've talked a lot about the big picture. I want to make it personal. In the early 1990s, I lost my job in a corporate merger. For about 48 hours, I moped around…