Political Quotes

“Unlike the previous Speaker, this Speaker has allowed this place to actually function as a democracy. He is not ruling it with an iron fist. So many people complained about the way that it was previously run, and now they kind of want it run like that again. It is not the way we should operate. We need to pass a CR. Any CR in a divided government ultimately will be bipartisan. We all know that. There is no partisan CR that is going to become law in a divided government, but we have to negotiate and have to get to that point. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's commentary and his critique of Republican leadership, but what I didn't hear is how he was going to vote on this rule or how he is going to vote on the underlying bill. The bottom line is, quotes are fine, but votes are better. Votes are more important here. By the way, this bill that we are talking about guts things like LIHEAP, cuts it by 74 percent, which will impact people in New York, which will impact people in Pennsylvania and all over this country. The bottom line, Madam Speaker, is that if we want to get rid of the nonsense and get to the business of funding government in a bipartisan way, then we need to stop this now. We need to sit in a room in a bipartisan way and figure this out. That is what the United States Senate is doing. My Republican friends have never once talked to the Democratic leadership here about trying to come up with a compromise.…”