Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My good friend, Mr. Gene Green--and he is my good friend--as I recall, those Texas legislators were called the Killer Bees. And if you want to compare them to mosquitos, I will leave you that luxury and that political risk. We just call Texas legislators welcome guests. So they are welcome to come any time. In terms of the point, though, I think I agree with much of what you say, other than the last part of what you said about adequately, responsibly funding. That is exactly what we are doing. The total amount of money here we are talking about, my friends keep forgetting about this $600 million that has already been deployed, and they keep suggesting that this is like only Ebola money. That is not the way the legislation is written. It is written for Ebola and other infectious diseases. In other words, we are using that money exactly the way we are supposed to use it, not shortchanging anybody. If we need money later--because this is money that is to be spent over multiple years--we will come back and put it in. But that money, frankly, if it had not been available, there would not have been an immediate response possible. It was available, so it is being used in the appropriate way. This is the next third. So when we hear this talk about only a third of what the administration requested, we have already done a third.…”