Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we keep saying it, and the folks who keep watching us wonder why we keep saying it--or maybe they know why we keep saying it. Little by little, you are reopening the government, but it may take until 2025 to accomplish it at this level. So our hope would be that we just pass the resolution that was passed in the Senate and open the government. Now, this one is an easy one. Everyone is going to vote for this bill. In fact, this bill should pass on a voice vote so that we can get folks and pay them properly for the services they're rendering, but there are other people who need to come to work. There are other people who need to service the American people. There are Americans who need to be serviced, and this is not the way for us to behave. A little bit of history--and I know that some people in the last couple of days have either refused to mention it or gave up on it--and that is that this all started not because there were differences in economic reasoning or behavior. It started because a group of people on your side wanted to attach killing ObamaCare--the Affordable Care Act-- and they were willing to do whatever they needed to do to accomplish that. That's not going to happen. How many times do we have to say that bill was passed by the House, passed by the Senate, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court?…”