Marcy Kaptur: “That is, the circumstances that have led to Speaker Boehner's decision to depart this Chamber trouble me a great deal.…”

“That is, the circumstances that have led to Speaker Boehner's decision to depart this Chamber trouble me a great deal. History will report on everything that happened that has led to this point, but how sad is it that someone with that experience from our part of the country--the Great Lakes region doesn't have all that much here in terms of leadership positions--would do this for what he views as the good of the country because certain individuals seem not to be able to work as a team. If we can't work as a team, team America, then I think that really harms our entire Republic. Speaking as the dean of our delegation, Ohio will lose a great deal by the Speaker's departure. Many times I have said in my career: How is it that the State that produced John Glenn and Neil Armstrong to both orbit the globe and land on the Moon, why do we have the smallest NASA center in the country? There are real regional pulls inside this institution, and John Boehner put his sword in the ground for our Great Lakes region. I worry a lot about what this means for us as other parts of the country weigh in more heavily.…”