Political Quotes

“Tomorrow, the Republican Speaker John Boehner will adjourn the House, and Congress will leave town for 5 full weeks. I rise to urge Speaker Boehner to cancel this recess and keep us in session, so we can address the urgent issues facing the American people. Democrats have a clear list of priorities that will jump-start the middle class. We want to renew emergency unemployment benefits, raise the minimum wage, fix our broken immigration system, reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank, invest in repairing and rebuilding America's infrastructure, and make sure women earn equal pay for equal work. We have an opportunity to lift millions of hardworking Americans out of poverty, create jobs, and grow the economy by passing these bills that will help the middle class. It is a complete dereliction of duty for Speaker Boehner to adjourn the House and leave town without addressing any of these issues, but what is even worse, instead of getting these things done for the American people, the Republicans will take up a bill to sue the President for moving too slowly to enact a bill that they oppose, that they have tried to stop over 50 times. You can't make this stuff up. The American people deserve better, and the American people cannot afford 5 weeks of inaction. ____________________”