Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend from Oklahoma, who has done such a good job. I rise today in opposition to this bill. It is deeply troubling to me that during the worst pandemic in modern history and amidst a deep economic crisis, Democrats in the House continue to take a partisan path. As Republicans and the Trump administration moved to respond quickly, it was congressional Democrats who needlessly delayed the initial passage of the CARES Act and later caused a pointless week-long shuttering of the Paycheck Protection Program. How many jobs were lost because of that delay? And here we go again. According to Politico, ``Democrats acknowledge that their behemoth proposal, whose summary alone is 90 pages, is more of a talking point than legislation that they expect to become law.'' Well, just from the Energy and Commerce Committee perspective alone, you have policies that amount to Federal Government takeovers of entire sectors of the economy, Mr. Speaker. There is a sweetheart deal for Medicaid compliance carved out only for the State of New York and no one else. The bill throws more good money after bad to the failing enrollment programs in ObamaCare and it violates years of bipartisan agreement to maintain Hyde protections on Federal healthcare spending. Why would Democrats spend weeks crafting what amounts to an 1,800- page progressive manifesto that is dead on arrival in the Senate? Why? Mr.…”