Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Mr. Kelly. Mr. Speaker, we have a problem. We have an inactive Senate with Harry Reid at the helm as the majority leader. Someone on the Senate side seems to have hit the pause button, and it has been stuck there for a while, and we are having to deal with that. But here in the House of Representatives, the people's House, we have passed over 200 bills since I came to Congress that just seem to be gathering dust over in the Senate. We have hardly been inactive on this side of Congress taking up important energy, education, health care reforms, and numerous jobs bills--some Republican bills, some Democratic bills--and most passed with bipartisan support. Yet Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has thrown them on the ground. Ohioans ask me what we are doing here in Washington, D.C. I am at my wit's end trying to explain that every reform-minded bill that I have supported that we passed on behalf of the American people is stuck in the Senate. It is a legislative purgatory. It just sits. And I don't wish that on my fellow Ohioans or my fellow Americans. I am not asking the Senate to agree with every bill that we pass, Mr. Speaker, but at least allow a vote and at least allow a discussion. One example is the Keystone XL pipeline. The energy security legislation passed the House with bipartisan support nearly a year ago; 241 Members of Congress voted for the Northern Route Approval Act.…”