Political Quotes

“I want to thank my good friend, Chairman McGovern, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, we are back again on appropriations, and we are back again on the exact same set of bills as before. Last week, the House agreed, over Republican objections, to pass a set of appropriations bills, six of which would fund the relevant departments for a full year, the seventh of which would fund the Department of Homeland Security until February 8. Today, not content with already having passed these bills once, my friends in the majority are again bringing up four individual bills that were part of the same package covering the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development bill, Financial Services and general government bill, the Agriculture bill, and the Interior and Environment bill. Nothing substantive in these bills has changed. Indeed, nothing substantive has yet changed anywhere in this process: The government remains partially shut down; The Senate is refusing to pass the bills my Democratic Party colleagues are proposing; The President is refusing to sign them; and The majority is proposing to fix the problem by passing the exact same bills. To quote the great Yogi Bera: ``It is deja vu all over again.'' While I commend my friends in the majority for trying to reopen the government, let's be clear about what they are proposing.…”