Political Quotes

“as Members can see from the debate we have had today and throughout the past couple weeks, almost everyone in this Senate and in the House of Representatives agrees on the need for Congress to be working with our new President on a stimulus plan to jump-start the economy. We have people in our home States who are hurting. There were 600,000 jobs lost last month across our country. These facts underscore the need for something to be done to strengthen our economy. So we are all in agreement on that basic premise. There is a great deal of good will out there in the country for our new President. I commend President Obama for making the economy his main focus. I also commend him for publicly stating Democrats do not have a monopoly on good ideas. The President said: Republicans have good ideas also. And he wanted to include them in his stimulus plan. That is not what happened when House Democrats met behind closed doors several days ago to write this bill. It is not what has happened throughout the process. Republicans responded to the President's call. We came forward. We came to this floor. We talked to our constituents back home. We stood before every television camera that would film us. We talked with every journalist we could find. We have discussed our ideas with the American people. We presented ideas that I believe could have turned this economy around. Our ideas focused, first, on getting the housing market out of the gutter.…”