Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge I am a bit of a football fan--not much of an expert, but a fan--and I know that from time to time a play will be called and a quarterback will follow all the offensive line moving to the right of the field and follow behind them and appear to be handing the ball off to a running back behind the offensive line, but actually the quarterback has the ball, turns around, and goes the other way. It is called misdirection. And that is what is happening on the floor, as we speak. I understand why my colleagues don't want to talk about the President's actions. I understand why the Members on the other side don't want to talk about actions that we consider to be considerably outside what was intended by the national emergency powers given to the President. So I would like to get back, if I may, though, to the issue at hand. I want to just read something. ``We will vote on a resolution to reverse the President's ill-advised national emergency declaration that funds the construction of a border wall using money that Congress has appropriated and the President has signed into law for other purposes, such as military construction. . . .'' ``By declaring a national emergency, the President's action comes into direct conflict with Congress' authority to determine the appropriation of funds--a power vested in Congress by the Framers of our Constitution in Article I, Section IX.…”