Political Quotes

“I want to remind my friends who engage in revisionist history, we haven't held anything up. The Senate put a $1 trillion offer on the table back in July. My friends didn't think that was good enough. The President put a $1.8 trillion deal on the table. They didn't think that was good enough. We are here now with a bipartisan, good bill. We may need to do more later. We will see. But the reality is our friends held unrealistic positions with a lot of policy riders on them that they knew were never going to be accepted, and they did that throughout the election season. Fine. The election is over. All of a sudden we are back and we are able to compromise after the election. It would have been better for the American people had we done that back in July. My friends chose a different path, but I am glad they have changed their mind since the election. I am glad we have something in front of us that is genuinely bipartisan. We will pass it on a bipartisan basis today. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”