Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I am happy to rise in support of S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act. I am the author of the House version of this bill and have introduced it every Congress since the 115th, always with a Republican cosponsor. I would like to start my remarks today by thanking the Members, past and present, who have helped bring us to the floor today. I thank our former colleague Bradley Byrne of Alabama for his cosponsorship of the first iteration of this bill. I thank Congresswoman Haley Stevens and other current bipartisan cosponsors; Senators Mark Warner, Marco Rubio, and John Cornyn, who recently steered this bill to passage in the Senate; and my colleague from North Carolina, Senator Richard Burr, who expedited the review of this bill by his committee. This bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent on June 15 of this year. I also thank my good friend Chairman Bobby Scott and his staff. They have vetted this bill and worked over this bill very carefully. He is an outstanding leader of the committee, and he has been a longstanding supporter of this bill. He included it, in fact, in various versions of the Higher Education Act. I also thank the staff, entrepreneurial staff, who picked up on this problem from casework years ago and devised a legislative solution. That would be Kate Roetzer and Nora Blalock of my staff initially, Janssen White and Elizabeth Adkins more recently, and other personal and committee staff, House and Senate.…”