Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, once again, let me thank Mr. Ferguson, as well as Ms. Jenkins, for bringing this bill to the floor. I don't want anyone who may be watching this on C-SPAN and may be just waking up, turning on the television, and looking at the incredible bipartisanship that is happening here today to think they died and have gone to bipartisan heaven. Although much of the work that we are doing today is bipartisan in nature, it really is drastically different than the way in which the Committee on Ways and Means has conducted business in the most recent past in connection with the passage of the Republican tax bill. Democrats have called that a tax scam bill. It had absolutely no input from the Democratic side of the aisle, certainly here in the House of Representatives, in the committee, or here on the floor. Not reflective of any of the Democratic principles or values in that bill and its passage. And as much as we are working in a very bipartisan way, this is not a reflection of my good friend Ms. Jenkins, but more a reflection, I think, of the leadership of the Republican Conference in ramming a bill through the committee without proper hearings. Not having a single Democratic amendment in that process spoke very ill of the process itself. Nobody cares about how sausage gets made. We know that. Nobody cares how legislation gets made. Nobod cares about how sausage gets made until they taste it and it doesn't taste good.…”