Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his bill. Mr. Speaker, this bill is about accountability, accountability for Senior Executive Service people, people like Lois Lerner. The ranking member of the committee who I have a great deal of respect for stated in his opening comments that he is nervous about this legislation because it might ``politicize senior government officials.'' Well, that is what we have now. I mean, what could be more political than a high-ranking official at the Internal Revenue Service targeting people who disagreed with her political views? This is all about holding people accountable who do the very things the ranking member talked about. We need this legislation because, Lord knows, the Justice Department is not doing their job. They are not holding anyone accountable. I mean, think about this fact pattern: you have got the FBI leaking to The Wall Street Journal in January of this year that no one is going to be prosecuted in the IRS scandal. You have got the President's now famous remark on Super Bowl Sunday, on national television, where he says: There is no corruption here, not even a smidgen.…”