Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, today we are rejecting the political stunts and grandstanding that have made it difficult to deliver much-needed disaster relief to families and communities across America. It has been 9 months since Hurricane Florence struck the Southeast, just one of the many natural disasters--including other hurricanes, Pacific typhoons, and Western wildfires--that impacted our fellow Americans last year. In that time, the House has already passed two strong packages of relief and recovery assistance; bills to help the people of Puerto Rico recover from one of the deadliest and costliest storms in American history and to meet urgent needs following Midwest floods and Southern tornadoes. Those bills were held up because some in our government refused to assist our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico who are still recovering from a 2017 hurricane. I am pleased we have moved past that, because when disaster strikes, we shouldn't let a ZIP Code dictate our response, and Americans across the country have been waiting far too long for the relief and recovery assistance they deserve. That is why so many of us were deeply disappointed last week when this bipartisan, bicameral disaster relief bill was blocked three times by House Republicans, even though it has the support of the President, Senate Republicans, and congressional Democrats and has passed in the Senate.…”