Political Quotes

“I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the ranking member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to strongly oppose this continuing resolution. I cannot support a bill that flies in the face of responsible governing. This is pure incompetence. How many times are we going to do this? This is our fifth short-term spending bill since September. How many times will we punt our priorities, lurching from one self-inflicted wound to another? That is exactly what the continuing resolution represents: a failure to govern. It is shameful that, yet again, we neglect our core obligation as a Congress, which is to fund government programs. We should be voting on new top-line spending levels for 2018, that alleviate sequestration from both nondefense and defense spending. We should have spent the last few months fulfilling our responsibility as legislators by writing bipartisan bills to fund programs that help the middle class and the vulnerable, support evidence-based scientific research, and help working people get the skills they need to find good jobs and get good wages. Instead, the majority forced through their tax scam for millionaires and billionaires. They became the first party to ever control both Chambers of Congress and the White House, and, yes, they shut down the government.…”