Political Quotes

“Thank you, Congressman Kelly. I appreciate this. It is an honor to be here with you, and it is an honor to be setting the record straight. You know, I spent a couple minutes in here listening to my colleagues about what we are not doing and what they are doing. The facts and figures that they are throwing out are coming from the White House. They change on a regular basis. We will get into that stuff in a little bit. But I want to hold up something and show it to the American people and then touch on it a little bit, about what we have done in the House of Representatives. What the Republicans have done in the House of Representatives for the 113th Congress--that is just last year and this year. That is not including the legislation that we passed in the 112th Congress, from 2011 to 2012. I am holding in my hand here the names, the numbers, the dates, and the details of 220 bills that the House passed--220 bills. Some of it was with support from a handful of Democrats who saw that this is good legislation, that it will create jobs, it will keep taxes low. It does away with job-crushing regulation. It lets the private sector do what it does best. It allows the hardworking taxpayers to have a level playing field. I am just going to recite some of the bills. I am not going to go over nearly all 220 bills that are sitting on Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid's desk that he refuses to bring to the floor for a vote. I ask the Democrat leader: Senator Reid, what are you afraid of?…”