Political Quotes

“I am pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), a distinguished ranking member on the Appropriations Committee. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, let me begin by quoting Sir Walter Scott: What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. This amendment is an exercise in deception. It is designed to shut the government down. It drastically underfunds the fundamental priorities of the American people, and it tries yet again to delay families' access to affordable health care. We do not have time for this sort of recklessness. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned us that the automatic across-the-board cuts could cost us as many as 750,000 jobs in 2013. The majority wants to make these cuts permanent, regardless of the job loss, damage to our economy, or harm to working families across the country. Because of the deep cuts enshrined here, over 57,000 children lose access to early learning through Head Start. These children never get that opportunity back. The biomedical research that saves lives is being curtailed, delayed, or lost. Educational programs are sharply reduced for over a million of our most disadvantaged kids, even though one in five children currently live in poverty. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed adults are losing access to job training. Low-income seniors lose out on 5 million congregate and home- delivered meals.…”