Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana, Mrs. Houchin, for the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, after wasting weeks as Republicans tried to get their house in order, we have just 10 days left to fund the government or we shut down. My colleagues across the aisle might say that the House has already passed 7 of 12 funding bills, but they know those bills are so extreme that they won't get the necessary Democratic or Republican votes in the Senate and don't have any chance of becoming law. We are reviewing another extreme bill today, H.R. 4664, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024. Let's start with the numbers. The bill is 58 percent below last year's level. If any of you had a business or just balanced your housing budget, what would happen if you cut almost 60 percent from what you had to spend from one year to the next? Your business or your household would fail. If a budget reflects your values, this extreme Republican bill values the wealthy, the well-connected, the fraudsters, and the scammers. A family putting their baby to bed tonight knows cribs are safe. The babies aren't being strangled because of the work of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which recently turned 50. What are Republicans doing in this bill to this well-honored and respected Commission? They are cutting their funding by 10 percent, so big corporations can put profit over safety.…”