Political Quotes

“it has been 16 months since the Republicans have taken over Congress, and what have we gotten for it? We have gotten an extreme agenda that hurts the middle class. The previous Speaker showed why the environment is so important and how the Republican majority is doing nothing to help the environment. We have Medicare cuts and Medicaid cuts that hurt our senior citizens. We have the largest education cuts in American history. Let me say that again, the largest education cuts in American history. As we approach Earth Day, we find cuts in the environment, cuts in environmental enforcement, allowing the polluters to continue to pollute. They use the code word ``balance.'' That means let us let industry continue to pollute. They hurt the middle class. They want to keep corporate welfare. This is what the agenda was all about yesterday. They talk about tax relief. We have rules in this House that we passed, much-heralded rules saying that there needs to be a supermajority in order to raise taxes, and the Republicans have waived those rules three times. Let us stop the nonsense. Let us stop hurting the middle class with the extreme Republican mean-spirited agenda.”