Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy. We are watching the harsh reality of governing without any meaningful Republican participation. It would have been an opportunity as we were moving forward to act as if they were actually legislating. People who were part of the party could have been able to zero in on some of these things. I personally am absolutely committed to deal with the SGR problem. This bill is a step forward to deal with it. It is not as good as what we had passed earlier in the House. But it is interesting that our friends on the other side of the aisle just took a hike, decided to be negative. One of the best examples is their hypocrisy or willful ignorance when it comes to the stimulus. I talked to hundreds of people who were here in town, and I'm sure some of them made it to Republican offices as part of the construction industry fly-in. All were thankful for the investment of the economic recovery package that kept people working in construction. Not just the thanks from teachers, firefighters, energy industry who have benefited from the jobs that have resulted, but they heard that particularly from infrastructure companies, if they cared to listen. I find a certain amount of disingenuous argument here when people are saying, well, we can't use emergency funding to help unemployed people in America. It should, instead, be funded by raising taxes or cutting programs.”