Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Turner and Chairman Rogers and his staff. I also want to thank Leader Cantor and his staff and Mr. Moran and Mr. Cummings and the others and all the staff, my staff included, but all the staff who did this very quickly. This was done during the Reagan administration. It was done during the Clinton administration. Who are the Federal employees? The Federal employees are the FBI agents that everyone would call if they got a call and found out their loved one was kidnapped. The first person they would call would be an FBI agent, a Federal employee. I was with Mr. Hoyer 2 weeks ago at the Navy Yard. The 12 people who were killed at the Navy Yard and those who were wounded, they were all Federal employees. Mr. Hoyer can tell you, when the CNO talked about it, he said they were a part of the fleet. The Capitol Hill policemen that we all got up the other day and gave a standing ovation, they are Federal employees. The VA doctors that are working out at Walter Reed, working on young men and women who have lost limbs and served in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are Federal employees. I remember, I was again with Mr. Hoyer when we were down at OPM earlier this year when they had stars on the wall of 27 Federal employees who have died since 2012, and since that time the number of stars have increased tremendously. I saw the movie ``Zero Dark Thirty.'' If you looked at that movie, it was about catching bin Laden.…”