Political Quotes

“Thank you, Steny. Thank you, Representative Garamendi. I think the tragedy that results from the lack of vision by the new Republican majority in this House, the sadness that results, is that not only is it near 3 months of a new regime with zero numbers of bills as a number of bills that's been approved that would create jobs--that would be bad enough. But it's dismantling success that's been achieved in the last couple of years. That translates into jobs, the health care industry, the innovation economy, dismantling that, disinvesting in America. That's even worse. Instead of standing still, which is tragic, we're going backward, backward, that takes us into what could be the recession of the recent past that was 8.2 million jobs lost. We need to invest. Now, it's a no brainer to assume that if you put R&D into play--and they've dismantled R&D, education, higher education, health care--all of this impacts jobs and the potential to compete with the muscle that America needs. The American public is asking for hope to be built into the fabric of this Nation. We have advanced that message of hope. We're talking about making it in America. We're talking about investing in R&D. Why? Because where R&D takes place is probably where manufacturing follows. It makes sense to incorporate the R&D elements with the manufacturing sector. That's a given in the current economy, in the present day industry. So we need to invest.…”