Political Quotes

“I like the gentleman from Georgia. He's a nice guy. But I have to say that his story about what actually happened here is not exactly accurate. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is when the Democrats were in charge in the last Congress, we did have an omnibus appropriations bill, but it was the Senate Republicans who refused to provide the votes, because, as you know, you need a supermajority in the Senate. Then he talked about how he was glad to be home last week. I was glad to be home last week too, and I got a lot of input, but we should have been working here and not moving up so perilously close to these deadlines where the government could actually shut down. My fear is that we're just going to be kicking the can down the road every 2 weeks, every 2 weeks, facing another possible government shutdown. As the gentleman from Colorado said, that creates economic uncertainty and is not good for the economy. {time} 1300 Now, I just wanted to comment on the gentleman from Georgia. I was glad that I finally heard him use the word ``jobs'' and talk about jobs because that's the problem here. This H.R. 1 that he talks about we know is going to destroy jobs--various accounts, 700,000, 800,000 jobs that will be destroyed or will be eliminated, not just because the government isn't paying for the jobs, but because it doesn't invest in the future. If you listened to what President Obama said in his State of the Union address, he said that the government has a role.…”