Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance my time. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin and reiterate a point that I made earlier. I know my good friend from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) and I may disagree tonight on this particular instance, but I think as a broad principle we probably do agree that it is much better, honestly, that as appropriators, we are not carrying everybody else's weight. Sometimes the mule finally breaks down. I would just tell my friends, working in good faith, particularly on bipartisan bills like we had in WIOA reauthorization and some of the health issues that were mentioned earlier, please bring your bills to the floor under your own time. Don't try to catch a ride with us right at the end. People hate that. Our own Members don't get a chance to read the bills in some cases. The public doesn't get a chance to hear a full debate on the issue. It is simply not good governance. I would actually argue that this legislation is focused and easy to understand and easy to read. The parts that are important to it are really only about 130 pages. Those are the things that the Appropriations Committee did, and we did it in a bipartisan fashion and in good-faith debate. All of those things are in this bill. I tell my friends on both sides of the aisle, and I say this, again, not in a partisan sense at all. Remember that if you vote ``no'' on this bill, you are effectively voting to shut down the government.…”