Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I want to thank Ranking Member Lowey for yielding me time. Thank you to all members of the committee for the long hours you have dedicated to these bills, certainly our chairman, Rodney Frelinghuysen. The artificially low allocations you were given have resulted in a package that I cannot support, but I want to note your efforts to find compromise where it was possible. Though the House passed the Energy and Water bill as part of July's Christmas tree minibus, I am back down here today because the Republican majority has harmed the Department of Energy's funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, or, as they call it, the ATVM. It has been gutted as a pay-for to cover another shortsighted Republican cut to a Federal Emergency Management program. Today's rule allowed this boneheaded Republican action, plotted just weeks ago before Mother Nature's catastrophic fury hit Texas with Hurricane Harvey. It doesn't look good to the American people when the majority cuts programs that are desperately needed. It doesn't serve America's future if money is pulled from developing engine technologies to increase fuel economy of cars, expand domestic manufacturing, and create good-paying American jobs.…”