Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), our ranking member on the Rules Committee. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding so I can vent a little bit. Mr. Speaker, I just saw a Roll Call story that is reporting that Republicans are pulling their continuing resolution today to weigh more cuts. I mean, are you kidding me? Their crummy CR contained an 8 percent across-the-board cut in almost every program that helps people, everything from medical research, WIC, Head Start, housing. Even border security is cut by 8 percent. The only thing that is exempt is the military budget, the biggest bureaucracy in our government. They are okay with cutting fuel assistance for poor people by 65 percent. Money to help people be able to heat their homes in the winter, they are okay with cutting that, but they believe you can't find one penny of savings in a missile system in the Pentagon with huge cost overruns. I mean, it is pathetic. As the Republican whip said: The patients are running the hospital around here. The gentleman from Oklahoma said this is about a negotiation. My Republican friends can't even negotiate with themselves, and we have 11 days to go before there is a shutdown, and they are going in the wrong direction. It has become more and more difficult to get to an agreement. Enough, I mean, enough. The Republican leadership of this House is incompetent. They are so incompetent; it takes my breath away.…”