Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Sustaining the World War II Memorial for them and, importantly, to better inform and enhance interpretation of the purposes for which the war was fought will provide generations to come with a greater sense of America's history, and of course this is near and dear to all of our hearts. Please let me thank our partners at the Friends of the World War II Memorial, Holly Rotondi and Paul Marcone, and our staff assistant Margaret McInnis for their wonderful service in helping us move this bill forward to where it is today. I also thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kinzinger) and the 300 House Members who sponsored this bipartisan bill as well as our Senate counterparts, Senators Mike Rounds and Jeanne Shaheen, for their bipartisan support. It is nice to do things on a bipartisan basis. Let me finally express gratitude to the marvelous, talented, and caring Chairwoman Maxine Waters for moving this bill along with so many, many others and for her dutiful service to the Nation, and her colleagues, Ranking Member Patrick McHenry as well as Congressman French Hill for their very generous support. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 1057.”