Political Quotes

“I am going to roll up my pant legs because it is too late to save my shoes. As we prepare to debate H.R. 7 today, one thing we are going to do throughout this debate is we are going to call Members on the facts. There is going to be a lot of emotion here, and some say when you do not have the facts on your side, you can resort to emotional arguments like throwing out huge numbers, like throwing out neat-sounding terms. But, Mr. Speaker, in today's debate and in tomorrow's debate, we are going to call Members on the facts as they are. If we have a clean and open debate on what H.R. 7 is all about, as we did in the committee, we will find that this is not a Republican issue; we will find, as we did in the committee, that 11 Democrats joined with every Republican for the largest bipartisan vote out of committee of any of the contract items. The final vote was 41 to 13. So as we listen to the rhetoric today, Mr. Speaker, I say to the Members, keep your eyes on your shoes because it is going to be flowing hot and heavy, but we are going to be here to make sure the facts are brought forth and that the arguments that are used to base a decision on the issue will in fact be available for all of our colleagues.”