Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman, and I thank Chairman Rogers and the work of the staff. Mr. Speaker, I think we have a bill here that the House can fully embrace. The point that I want to make is that we have in this bill major spending programs that are going to help tens of millions of Americans improve their life chances. On the health side, on education, and on housing, I particularly want to indicate how pleased I am that we were able to increase very significantly our investments in brain science and brain research. We were able to almost double the President's request on youth mentoring. There are areas--everything from Commercial Crew to efforts to combat drug addiction--that would commend this bill for favorable support here in this House. I want to thank the committee for all of its great work. I want to particularly thank my staff for the work that they have done. We will have a chance to indicate, as we go forward after the holiday, some of the particulars, but I will single out one right here right now. There was a young police officer who was in a gun battle in my district trying to protect life and property. Our commissioner said it was the most courageous act he ever saw of a police officer. In this bill today, we name a program in the Department of Justice, a program focused on lessening violence against police officers, after this young officer, Robert Wilson III. It is not an effort in which we want to just think about money.…”