Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, folks in the audience, and folks that are watching this on TV, this is all theater. This is all just political theater. Everybody knows. I know. My good friends on the other side of the aisle know that this isn't going to solve anything. This is not a solution. If we were serious about solving this, we wouldn't be voting on another bill here that doesn't fix anything, that is never going to be moved through the Senate, that is never going to be signed by the President. If we were interested in opening the Federal Government, we would be negotiating. We would be talking about what our differences are about border security. Remember, this is a bill that includes the funding for border security. That is why we have this partial shutdown, because we have a disagreement about border security. And we are trying to work it out, but we can't work it out just by running the same bills that don't do anything and that are never going to move through the Senate and aren't going to be signed by the President. It is time to get serious. Last year, this government was shut down for a few days over amnesty. Now it is shut down because the other side doesn't want to talk about border security. You put amnesty and the lack of border security together, and that is open borders. That is completely open borders. Just on the news, if you were watching the last couple days, more caravans heading north out of Central America through Mexico to the United States border.…”