Political Quotes

“I just wanted to ask you a quick question, which is, when you consider the fact that the media reporting is very different from what I have perceived in this body as a Member of Congress, I am more astonished every day at how the media reports the story. But the very last ask that we made before the government shutdown was about 1 o'clock in the morning, so I guess technically the government had been shut down for about an hour. That very last ask was simply a meeting. It was simply a conference so that people on their side and people on our side could come together and discuss ObamaCare and some of the problems that we have with it. Now, when you talk about the Constitution and the constitutional process that we have and you have divided government--I would like to ask the gentleman from Florida--is that not a perfectly reasonable adult way of handling disputes? {time} 1515 Mr. DeSANTIS. I thank the gentleman for the question. That is not only an adult way, that is exactly the way that the Founding Fathers envisioned it. James Madison, when he wrote about the different branches of separation of power, checks and balances, he said: Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. So you have an executive that gets beyond their scope, he expected the legislature to check that. So in this instance, we are saying, Wait a minute, you can't unilaterally delay the law for business, but then leave the rest of the American people holding the bag.…”