Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend from Oregon for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I have sat on this conference committee now for a bunch of months, and there's been a lot of money spent in Washington, DC, and elsewhere around this Nation saying that the Republican Party is the Party of No. Well, let me tell you as I sat in this conference committee what I heard, and yesterday was the best example of it. I heard commonsense proposals in the House bill brought to the conference committee, brought to the Senate Democrats and said, Look, we have all supported this. Ninety percent of these pay-fors for the policy that we're trying to enact, the President--the Democratic President--supports. And what I heard repeatedly yesterday was, No, no, no. We are not going to accept these pay-fors. Even though our President said we'll accept them, even though we've supported them in the past, what I heard yesterday was, No, we're not going to pay for it. So I think to the American people there is a clear division here. What we stand for in the House Republican side and in this Chamber is that we are going to pay for the decisions coming out of Washington, DC, going forward. And I will have to say that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and my particular colleagues in the Senate on the Democratic side of the aisle, have tried to go back to the old politics of do you know what? Let's just call everything emergency spending and we don't have to pay for it. That's old-school politics.…”